Hello to you all, So I write you, not from Namibia, but from the place I wanted to go in the first place, Bulawayo Zimbabwe. After a couple of tries, I think it was the third time again, I managed to leave Zanzibar. Instead of going to the mainland by dhow, this time I decided [...]
Finally I am forgetting dates and all and as I don’t have my diary here I only know when I left you last and therefore what to tell you aprox. Khartoum was a quickly, met Didier there on his way up on a F650 Dakar and he even met Iris and Florian, so I am [...]
Hi Guys, As I don’t feel up to writing you all a long story of what happened everyday, I will keep it short of what happened in the last 18 days. I left Dahab finally after getting all the work done on the bike and went to Luxor and Aswan. The boat to Sudan was [...]
29 till 31-12-2002 Dive and Relax, what else? The last days from this year I spend what you can do best in Dahab, Dive and Relax. I also went around town to arrange some transportation for me and my bike to get to Cairo. As my bike was running so poor and couldn’t find the [...]
First of all sorry I did not wrote a news letter sooner, but there where some other things on my mind. 06 till 14-12-2002 Getting better in Madaba As I cannot remember when I did what, just a small a brief story of what I did these days. There is not much to tell also [...]
25-11-2002 UN (UNIFIL) As the diving instructor did not have time for me today I decided to go to the south of Lebanon. There is a UN mission there called UNIFIL and as I had an invitation from a Indian UN-worker there I decided to go and meet him. On my way down I drove [...]
Yesterday the 3rd of December I had a severe accident on the way from Madaba to Karak in Jordan. The bike looks okay but the Tesch-cases and the rack are completely gone. I will have to make new ones. My Laptop is broken (till now no luck with electronics), so now I cant read out [...]
15-11-2002 Smelling Syria Awoke pretty early, had the nicest breakfast till now and headed for the Turkish – Syrian border town of Antakya. That I reached again by sunset but there should be plenty of hotels around. Finding your way in a new town by dark keeps difficult and I am glad at least some [...]
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Just a quick update as nothing really happened here. From Ankanya I drove to Tartus in Siria and from there to Beiroet Libanon, after visiting Krak the Chevaliers near the Lebanese border. I was not really planning to visit Lebanon, but thought I might give it a go as I was near the border, and [...]