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Photo Story: Senegal

Posted by Peter Gostelow on Oct 25, 2012 in Photo Stories | 0 comments

Until my wallet got stolen from the Guest House room I was sleeping in at the time, I quite liked sleepy St Louis, the former capital of the French colony of Senegal. This photo of a shop front typified a scene...

The Big Africa Cycle Calendar 2013

Posted by Peter Gostelow on Oct 21, 2012 in Headlines | 0 comments

Selecting 12 pictures for a calendar is never easy when you have hundreds to choose from. I’ve given it a go and made a calendar from The Big Africa Cycle. I’d be delighted if you bought one and spread...

Photo Story: Mauritania

Posted by Peter Gostelow on Oct 18, 2012 in Photo Stories | 0 comments

Mauritania is almost all desert, as this picture clearly shows. That red road running down my map gave the impression I was next to the Atlantic, which I suppose I was. In truth I rarely saw the sea. It was...

Photo Story: Morocco

Posted by Peter Gostelow on Oct 11, 2012 in Photo Stories | 0 comments

Many of my fondest memories of places in Africa are connected with children. Smiles and waves would frequently greet me at the roadside as I cycled along, but there were also places where the incessant calls and...

Photo Story: Portugal

Posted by Peter Gostelow on Oct 4, 2012 in Photo Stories | 0 comments

Following the coast south from Lisbon I had company on the road for a week in Portugal. As the owner of a cycle touring company I let him make the decisions about route-planning, which encompassed the best of...

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7 Feb

End of the road. Arriving in Cape Town (several days before this picture was taken) was a bit of an anticlimax. No fanfare or celebrations - just a stranger in another foreign place, as I had been everywhere else in Africa. That this would be the end of my long journey throu…

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2 Feb

Coasting to the coast. The last time I'd seen the Atlantic Ocean on my journey through Africa was in Cameroon, so it was a welcome sight as I turned off the main highway and descended to the coast. I wasn't far away from Cape Town, which is where this journey would end. Afte…

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27 Jan

Into South Africa. I was more nervous about entering South Africa than I have been about entering most other countries on a bicycle. Most news reports from the country focus on its high crime rates, and many people had forewarned me about how dangerous i… https://t.co/RXoY6kanHM

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