We were constantly coming across sites that to us were fascinating to see. However, to the Gambian’s it was totally normal (which of course it was) to be walking along the street with your goats. So our fascination with them was their bemusement in our fascination……I wonder if that makes sense?
The kids we met along [...]
Florio’s full-length feature for The Independent on Sunday. Its not the full version (he wrote around 3,000+ words for the 1,500 piece they commissioned him for! Maybe we’ll put the full version on here soon!).
http://www.independent.co.uk/travel/africa/you-people-cannot-walk-you-only-move-in-cars-1920897.html
Janneh (leading Neil), Momadou &Paddy, Jones – arriving at lumo to stock up on supplies (weekly market), The Gambia
Image:Florio-2009-Gambia
Our first experiment with putting footage from the expedition on You Tube. Its all the rage apparently We have much more so watch this space.
Movie clip 1: Arriving at Sambel Kunda – home of The Gambia Horse & Donkey Trust (and home to Paddy, Neil and Hadley -our faithful road-hardy donkeys). This was [...]
We’ll be sending out Florio’s beautiful prints over the next couple of days. Still waiting, however, to hear from some of you as to your preferred choice of print from the expedition.
As always, we’d like to thank everyone for donating to the cause. We definitely couldn’t have done any of this without your support. We [...]
What an honour it was to meet Her Excellency Mrs Isatou Njie-Saidy, the Vice President of The Gambia, today at their office in the UN Mission up on 2nd Ave, New York, along with her delegation of aides and colleagues, beautifully and immaculately attired in traditional dress. As always, we felt under-dressed and positively drab [...]
http://www.atmagazine.co.uk/content/view/1550/147/
A small taster to the feature article in Adventure Travel Magazine, UK, where Jones is interviewed about the journey. The hard copy March issue mag is on the shelves now at all reputable book stores. The full interview will be on their website in the next month or so.
Image taken from Jason Florio’s book of [...]
