Horizon Chasing
Thanks for dropping by. This is Sam Watson’s blog – sometimes writer for various magazines, traveller, writer, geographer, conservationist and itinerant scruff. Insta – samwatson4994 / X – SamWatson__ / Fb – Sam Watson
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Hosting overlanders – and pop top roof Defenders
I’ve been quiet for a few days because I’ve been hosting a family of four German overlanders – the Stahl family (http://4-wheel-nomads.de/) and their neat 2011 Tdci 110, fitted with a LandyKamper pop top. Their Land Rover cleared Alexandria customs in record time – three working days – thanks to the efficient work of the…
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The passage of time
Visionary explorer, scientist and soldier Ralph Bagnold, founder of the LRDG, wrote in the 1930s in his book ‘Libyan Sands’ how a Briton could drive from the Atlantic coast of Morocco to the mountains of Nepal unhindered by bureaucracy. How the world has turned. Now in 2015 living in the Cairo suburb of Maadi, only…
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Overland through Africa via Egypt
It’s a sad fact that, at the moment, Egypt only has limited options on offer for overlanders travelling through Africa. With the accidental killing of 12 Mexican tourists in August 2015 near Bahareya and the periodic abduction of oil workers near the Cairo – Bahareya road, the government have recently ruled that permits are required…
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Blog revival….
What with writing for LRO, keeping up a Twitter feed and Facebook stream and living a life, I let this blog go. Then today I realised that people have actually been looking at it – “typical bloody Watson, idle git, hasn’t written anything in ages”. Sorry everyone – thank you for persevering. I will maintain…
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