\'We could always go overland now that we have wheels, \' Ross had suggested out of the blue.
Fourteen months had passed since Neil Armstrong walked on the moon so Africa couldn\'t be that difficult, could it? A month later we boarded the fer.
Only two strips of water interrupted the flow of land between Edinburgh and Chingola; the English Channel and the Straits of Gibraltar.
I\'d pulled out an atlas and we\'d traced a route down through Africa via countries still marked with their colonial names. \'We could always go overland now that we have wheels, \' Ross had suggested out of the blue