Part 9 – What would Bear Grylls do? To most people the French Foreign Legion conjures up images of men with rifles trudging up sand dunes. It was with some

Part 8 – Sun block. Inflatable guitars. When planning an adventure there is a lot to be said for items of luggage which have no practical use but do look

Part 7 – It’s definitely left. Or right A wrong turn is rarely more than an inconvenience. In the Sahara it’s the difference between reaching your destination or running out

Part 6 – Up the creek without a pump In hindsight, following a route that all the locals said was impossible was a bit daft. We have a habit of

Part 5 – It’s scorching. Let’s do coffee After dinner Greg quietly rolled up his trousers. Upon seeing his purple leg we had a fleeting moment of sympathy before ignoring

Part 4 – That is not a tyre lever The awful night’s sleep was only topped by waking to find that an irrigation pipe was leaking, and rather than irrigating

Part 3 – A rock and a hard place It was good to know that in the 12 years since we’d done the Plymouth Dakar Rally the Moroccan border experience

Part 2 – Two Wrongs Make a Wrong With the Transhit now fixed we were good to go. Kaspars was waiting to be picked up from Gatwick and now we

Part 1 – Stunt Double The world’s greatest adventurers have a lot in common. Meticulous preparation, determination, and careful use of available resources. This is why we are not the