Showing results by narrator "Lawrence Bransby" in All Categories

Stuck in deep sand, stuck in snow, bogged down in glutinous mud, crossing boulder-strewn dry riverbeds. There Are No Fat People in Morocco is the account of their trip - informative, amusing, and reflective, it will provide fascinating listening for the armchair traveler as well as those motorcycle adventurers planning their next trip! This is the third journey Lawrence and his son have done together: 15 years ago, they climbed on two old XT500s and crossed Africa together (Gareth was only 17 at the time).

Aaah Russia, the most mysterious and exciting of places! It is this country, 18 million square kilometres in size and 11 percent of the entire world’s land mass, it cast its spell over me when I was growing up in South Africa, where Russians were the “Reds under every bed”, feared, and demonized.

It is only when 17-year-old John Sanders actually meets the squatters who are putting up their makeshift shacks of plastic and wattle branches and stolen corrugated iron on an unused piece of waste land near the bottom of his parents’ house, that he is able to come to terms with his own loneliness, his bitterness toward his father, who left home.

The stories in this book are first-hand experiences of Neville Bransby's growth as a yachtsman and yacht owner, starting with his re-building of an old L36 cruising yacht which he entered in his first Vasco Da Gama yacht race in 2015, followed by a Shearwater 30, Farr 38 and finally a Farr 40, eight years and seven Vasco's later, to win line honours and the coveted Vasco Da Gama trophy in May 2023.

Get hold of an old banger for under £50; spend less that £5 on preparing it—and then drive it from the UK, across a section of the Western Sahara, to The Gambia in West Africa. Easy....