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Bikes in Africa: Capetown to Cairo: January 2010
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Wednesday, January 6, 2010. Haythem, we're coming to Zagazig. Ok? Ok' He seemed distracted. 'You come Zagazig? You come Zagazig visit me? Yes, is that ok? Yes Ok. Welcome welcome.'. After a day of riding, asking a broken down taxi driver to draw a map of Zagazig, and having our Arabic laughed at by a few local youngsters, I found a phone shop. Haythem, we're here.'. Ah, you come Zagazig! We're at a tea shop on El Nil street. You come? Ok ok Welcome welcome.'. I asked. 'No,' Haythem replied with a smi...
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Bikes in Africa: Capetown to Cairo: The Time I Almost Got Eaten By Lions
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Sunday, December 20, 2009. The Time I Almost Got Eaten By Lions. It was 2 am. Mtera Dam, Tanzania, on the dirt road 30 miles north of Iringa. Nate, Quinn, and I were going to join Quinn's family on a 2.30 am bus to Dodoma. The bus stop was in the next village three miles away, so Quinn's family took most of our belongings and hopped on a shuttle, while Nate, Quinn, and I biked there to meet them. I kept thinking, trying to conjure bubbly optimism and 100 happy faces to get myself to the bus stop. The bus...
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Bikes in Africa: Capetown to Cairo: March 2009
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Friday, March 6, 2009. There are few villages in the 500km north of Francistown and only one in the 300km between Nata and Kazungula Ferry, the border crossing. Leaving Nata, the first road sign one sees, about 500m out of town, is a sign that warns about animals. Be particularly careful at night, it says. We had been warned throughout Botswana of this area of road, and questioned about how we would deal with animals. "Do you have a gun? Thursday, March 5, 2009. Get wet," Gustav was telling us. "It d...
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Bikes in Africa: Capetown to Cairo: The Road That's Passable
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Thursday, October 22, 2009. The Road That's Passable. To our fellow Irish lads for Biking Across Africa! We meet Maghnus, Brian, Burns, and Alan in Moyale, the border town of Kenya and Ethiopia. In the coincidence that we are stuck in Moyale due to money issues, we happen upon the four of them in the streets of Moyale, Ethiopia side. 'Hey bike tourists! Nate and I run up to them and before we know it, questions start spewing out of our mouths.Where did you start? Where are you going? What's the road like?
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Bikes in Africa: Capetown to Cairo: December 2009
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Sunday, December 20, 2009. The Time I Almost Got Eaten By Lions. It was 2 am. Mtera Dam, Tanzania, on the dirt road 30 miles north of Iringa. Nate, Quinn, and I were going to join Quinn's family on a 2.30 am bus to Dodoma. The bus stop was in the next village three miles away, so Quinn's family took most of our belongings and hopped on a shuttle, while Nate, Quinn, and I biked there to meet them. I kept thinking, trying to conjure bubbly optimism and 100 happy faces to get myself to the bus stop. The bus...
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Cycle To Cape Town In Aid of Hazel Footprints Trust   -
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Cycle To Cape Town In Aid of Hazel Footprints Trust. Photos - Cairo to the Equator. Photos - Equator to Cape Town. One year on and a bit of time to reflect. I still firmly believe that the trip was one of the best things I;ve ever done. It's molded me in to a much happier individual and hopefully a better one too. I've been asked by many of you 'would I do it again? Cape Town at last! On Friday 19th March 2010 I finally managed it. I reached Cape Town. Its just as well I've finished as I'm not sure how m...
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The Hoge Spot: December 2009
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Former Limerick Leader and Vancouver Beaver, current Jobseeker. Wednesday, 23 December 2009. You know your Christmas holidays have started when. You start watching the new Star Trek movie at 8.30 in the morning. Sunday, 20 December 2009. Flying home for Christmas! I WAS going to make this announcement a little earlier but those cantankerous cabin crew clowns over at BA briefly threw a spanner in the works which has since been removed and will now hopefully be used to beat them ferociously. Then, before I...
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The Hoge Spot: December 2010
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Former Limerick Leader and Vancouver Beaver, current Jobseeker. Saturday, 25 December 2010. LOOK I've been busy alright? It's not like my usual blogging hiatuses which stem from unadulterated sloth and indifference. No, no I've been working on something special for all of you folks, a Christmas present if you will. Whatever about Irish podcasts, I'm almost certain that there aren't any Limerick-based podcasts and with that in mind, myself and an old friend fancy ourselves as a pair of trailblazers. As I ...
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The Hoge Spot: The Homecoming - Part One
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Former Limerick Leader and Vancouver Beaver, current Jobseeker. Friday, 5 November 2010. The Homecoming - Part One. Before I reached Virginia though, we had to drive to Seattle from Vancouver. This entailed a bit of a nerve-wracking visit to American customs who as it turned out didn't give a toss that I had technically overstayed my welcome in Canada by a few months. With heavy hearts, myself and the lady parted ways for a few months at Seattle Tacoma Airport. My arrival in Washington DC coincided with ...
