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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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14 Oct

Watermelon stop. I always make sure there's space to carry fruit when cycle touring. That includes a 10kg watermelon. Fortunately the road ahead through southern Malawi was flat. I ate half later that evening and the next morning, and gave the other half to the guesthouse st…

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12 Oct

After the rain. African landscapes always look their best after a period of rain. Fertile soils and clean fresh air singing with the sounds of nature. Main roads like this one in southern Malawi are blissfully free of traffic. In fact Malawi ranks close to bottom on a global…

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