? A Night in the Jungle

Written 5/7/18 Proud that we had managed our first route without being muppets, and excited that this means there will be plenty of other routes we can climb we plan our second day. Arnaud suggests Pectorine on Lemur Wall and Gilles agrees it is a good route for us. I am also pleased because it…

First Climb in Africa

When we first started thinking of going to Madagascar and discussed it with Al he lent us Arnaud Petit’s movie ‘Tough Enough’. So now imagine us 6 months later having just arrived where it was filmed, sitting at a picnic table gazing up at the beautiful granite walls. And then a friendly French guy in…

Je Suis en Afrique!

Written 24/6/18 None of our travel so far had prepared me for the craziness of Antananarivo(Tana). Well maybe taking a combi in South America helped, but this place is just next level madness. Actually we stayed in a nice calm hotel  just above the city centre for two nights to get our bearings and organise…

Athens

Written 23/6/18 Our sadness from leaving Kalymnos was somewhat expelled by the view from our hotel window...! Yes this is actually the view... We arrived in Athens by overnight ferry, and slept in and surprisingly well in our little cabin. Luckily we had planned to get the train into town, as there happened to be…