This is one empty mall. Doesn’t help that it’s Ramadan so all the food places are closed. Shops open but no people. Sad. It was a very nice Mall and had really good WiFi and it even had a small…

After a random but generous offer of “overlander overnight facilitie”s on Facebook we made contact with Nara and Amin. They offered overlanders showering, sleeping and laundry facilities out of the blue in a Facebook post. Turns out we were the…

Just out of town (luckily only just past the checkpoint) and I think something is wrong. I can hear a slight grinding when slowing for the checkpoint. The car had been feeling a bit bouncy since yesterday. I attributed this…

Never got to see much of the mirrored building initially as the minute we arrived through the gate there was something wrong with Henrietta and specifically her clutch. More on that later in another post. There is a gate across…

We arranged to meet one of the members from the Overlanding Association WhatsApp group. You may not even know that the Overlanding Association is pretty much half my fault. But that’s another story all together. We run 35 or so…

Been a long time coming. Milady Landy came to the Dakar Bivi to see us. At least that’s what I’m telling myself as maybe they came for the race. Anyhow a chance encounter with racing Defender TD5 Andrew from AliSport…

Since we were in Saudi Arabia at the right time of year we decided to go to see the Dakar race. In the first place we waited for a few days and decided to go to an earlier viewing point…

Quite a simple border really although it was quite stressful beforehand as we understood it was really difficult and it was actually quite painless. We did make a monumental mistake at the beginning and missed the turn off for the…

Quite an easy border really but as you would expect for the Middle East and for a modern country. Some of the huts on the side of the road had people in them but they were only interested in things…