“You are no spring chickens, you know. You are the oldest people I’ve seen doing this on bicycles!” Adelaide states matter-of-factly. We are sitting at the dinning table at Quinta San Antonio, in Lindela, Mozambique, and getting introduced to vetkoek, a fried bread stuffed with ground beef, onions and tomatoes, […]

“Kumba Lodge? It’s another five to ten minutes walking your bikes. It’s gonna be worth it!” a bearded man with a South African accent yells from his garden. We are pushing our bikes on the sandy road to our destination. Our beaming cheerleader takes another puff on his fat joint […]

“In Mozambique they are horrible people, because of the war I think.” We are standing by our loaded bikes at the gate of a forgettable roadside guesthouse, near the junction of roads M5 and M1 in central Malawi, talking to its owner. “Malawi, Zimbabwe they are fair countries, just poverty. […]

Our sojourn at Utengule Coffee Lodge, on the slopes of the Mbeya Range in Southern Tanzania, is a pefect comma on this long trek to Cape Agulhas and beyond. For four days we take up residence in a 5-bedroom bungalow surrounded by lush gardens, with direct access to the lodge’s […]

The following segment of this journey could have ended in the city of Mbeya or on the shore of Lake Nyasa down in the Great Rift Valley but after receiving a kind invite from Utengule Coffee Lodge it was an easy decision to plan our next stopover at the world-class […]