Hopefully this works – our current connection has youtube blocked so I can’t preview it. These are a few memories from our stay in Ethiopia, which ended with a 2 day run to Nairobi to meet the next team of Surfers.

A quick guide to making coffee on the road in Africa. The one man in Dodoma selling green coffee beans was still there, still in the same place in the market in Dodoma. We got a kilo – should be enough to see us to Cape Town.

Sorry for the lower quality than usual, struggling to find a fast internet connection to upload the higher quality videos!

If anyone knows what causes noises like this, please let us know asap. Text Louise or I, or reply here. Been happening on and off for a few days and we don’t like it.

An updated, slightly more riveting version of our introduction video from the other day.

Finn McCool and Benandonner, affectionately known as Finn and Ben.

Finn and Ben

Finn and Ben

Ben and Finn

Ben and Finn


We made good progress today and, whatever people who have done the roads before us have said, we struggle to believe that the Libyan desert could be more boring than the M6. We’ll give you a final conclusion on that in about 3 weeks.

Now that the trucks are named, here’s a wee video from yesterday. Nothing exciting you understand, nothing even related to the trip. But it kept us entertained for a while.

It’s not very exciting, but here’s a few clips from the first week of our trip in 67 seconds…

As composed, sung and played by Chris, the next Garth Brooks.

Third time lucky – the first performance (2 weeks ago) had too much background noise, for the second (1 week ago) the cameraman forgot to turn on the mic.