Blast from the Past
Once upon a time (or perhaps that should that be long, long ago) a young couple set off on the long journey from Scotland to South Africa. Never ones to do things the easy way and being of the view that the journey rather than the destination's the important bit they decided to go overland and chose, for reasons best known to themselves, to convert a London Taxi into the 'mobile home' necessary for the 6 month trip. En route from Glasgow to Cape Town. Our trusty London taxi That adventure is outside the scope of this blog but was one of many relived during the past few days over bottles of burgundy when we were joined by Richard and Corine. We lived with Richard for some time in Cape Town and he and Rob worked together on a salvage ship in often dangerous waters around the Cape. Whale catchers on tow (from Durban to Maputo) but one's about to sink (1976) Quick! Cut the tow wire! Too late! Gone... Considering the quite hair raising risks taken it is r...