The essence of our trip is to have two vehicles travelling together, with Louise and Andy driving one and the second driven by a constantly rotating group of people.
The first vehicle had to spend a few days in London to obtain visas for Sudan. Which was a fruitless exercise – more on that at a later date. The second, driven on this first leg by Andy’s dad, Robert, and his wife, Susan, skipped London to meet us in Belgium. We had already spent a lovely weekend with Margaret, Ton, Christine and Erik (Andy’s aunt and family).
We are now suffering for the cause with 6 inches of fresh powder snow in Flaine, again sponging off friends, staying in an apartment owned by one of Andy’s academic advisors from Queen’s University. However since we’re using free wifi in a pub and aren’t organised enough to have any skiing pictures on the laptop, here’s a lovely picture of us together as a team for the first time, leaving Brasschaat two days ago.
Surfing Africa leaving Brasschaat as a team, after lunch, for a 13 hour drive into the Alps
