Scratching The Surface

Chris & Jackie

In April 2007 we left London on a flight to Johannesburg, ready to meet our car in South Africa and drive it back to London. The planned route is a circuitous one, taking us up the east coast as far Kenya before dropping back down and across to Namibia and then finally striking out up the west coast.

From the Pub Trolls diary: "Bushcamping for us has ranged from the ridiculous (pulling up on the side of the road at dusk, eating some stale bread, sleeping and then leaving at dawn) to the sublime (staying three days on a beautiful beach undisturbed by anyone). It was something that we didn’t do at all in Southern Africa but were somewhat forced into by the bad roads and extortionate accommodation prices in Angola. Like most people, we were pretty apprehensive the first couple of times, driving far too long into the dark before stopping and so not really picking the best spot. Later we realised the best way was to stop an hour or so before dark to give ourselves time to cook and be noisy before the dead quiet of the night."