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Itinerant scruff. Sometimes writer. Traveller. York, Glencoe, Cairo, Beirut, Bulawayo etc. Left-leaning Europhile.
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March 3 years ago. 2022. Driving my Series 1, the Black Pearl, south of Gweru in beautiful Zimbabwe, and meeting friendly locals. I'll be heading back very soon with two LRs not one :) All possible thanks to Jordi Saudan

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Feb 2012, moody sunset in the Fayoum desert, Egypt

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Feb 2022, sunset over the Hajjar mountains in Sharjah

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Late Nepali breakfast of momo and thukpa at the excellent Yak and yeti Gurkha cafe in York ❤️ If I can't be in Nepal at the mo, at least my taste buds can :D

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March 2017, Fujairah desert

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Joint patrol with Kenya Wildlife Services and Born Free Foundation rangers tracking lions to find out population figures - Meru National Park, 2015

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Oct 2022, early morning in the Hajjar mountains of Sharjah

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March 2017 - time-worn carvings on a footbridge in Karnali Province, Nepal

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April 2023, Umm Al Qawain, the best sort of TV

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Feb 2012, Egyptian desert. Cheeky nocturnal guest in search of sausages. Needless to say he was given several! :D

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Feb 21, driving back into Fujairah in the beginnings of a sandstorm

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View from the roof tent door, early Dec 2017. Indian Ocean from central Oman

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March 2022, Sharjah at sunrise

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Fossilised remains of one of the first types of whale, Dorudon Atrox - Wadi Hitan, Egyptian desert, May 2012

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March 2018, Bumblebee as part of a classic Land Rover parade in Umm Al Qawain

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Summer 2008. Driving down through Northern Spain into Portugal

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Sept 2003, with a fossilised tree on top of the Qatrani escarpment in the Egyptian desert

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Feb 2022. I'd been exploring a steep sided wadi in the Hajjar mountains of Sharjah, and found this side-valley to make camp in as evening drew on. One thing that always struck me about the UAE was the humidity of the desert - far greater than North Africa. This was an especially humid night.

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Feb 2023, finding a spot to camp in the Umm Al Qawain dunes just as dusk begins to fall

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Aug 2015, luxury fitments in Range Rovers include camp kitchens. Lake Jipe, Kenya. (Note to pedants - jerrycans were empty)

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Fayoum region, Egyptian desert, Mar 2013

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April 2017, sunset in the mountains north of Pokhara, Nepal, heading back to the Gurkha base at Bheri from Rara Lake on the Chinese border

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Valentine's Day 2015.... out in the local desert near Cairo, came across a coach stuck in soft sand and pulled it out with the Landy. Still can't believe the driver was daft enough to take it into the desert......

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Two years ago today - Feb 2023, packing up to leave camp at sunrise, Umm Al Qawain

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Feb 2017, sunrise over camp, Fujairah

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March 2001, after a rare encounter with mud in the Egyptian desert

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Ive had almost 30yrs of this glorious addiction. Called home Jn 2023 fr parental illness & part of me has been parked for now- but only for a bit. Ive a 130 & a 90 outside giving me spaniel eyes- "when are we going again?" to chase the ever-retreating skyline. Mar 2023, Umm Al Qawain, early morning.

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Sept 2022, sunrise in Mleiha, Sharjah

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August 2022, Glencoe :)

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Dec 2019, me having a spa day and getting rid of some dead skin with a sand exfoliation bath. Umm Al Qawain

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October 2021. Rush hour in Sharjah

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April 2023, Umm Al Qawain. Looking for a place to camp at sunset in the dune sea.

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January 2022, campfire breakfast on the go, Sharjah

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The first sunray of the new day, Feb 2023 in the deserts of Umm Al Qawain

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For those celebrating Burns Night last weekend or this weekend, please remember that your haggis needs to be properly killed and prepared. Live haggis can be vicious. This is a Hebridean Green.

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Feb 2012, sunrise over camp near Sphinx Rock in the Egyptian desert

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Jan 28, 2023, Umm Al Qawain. Uncharacteristically cool that night, without the usual Arabian peninsula humidity. I'd been out in the dune sea all day and found a sheltered wadi to make camp as night fell.

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Two years ago this morning, chasing horizons in Umm Al Qawain, Jan 2023

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YouGov find just 30% of people think we were right to leave the EU. The lowest number yet. Just 10% of 18-24 year olds think it was the right decision.

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October 2011. Sunrise over the Qatrani escarpment north of Fayoum in the Egyptian desert.

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Shisha and Arabic coffee at Yemen Heaven in York in an attempt to maintain sanity :)

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A pic for Burns Night.....July 2014, sunset over the Isle of Jura from Kintyre

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