Thinking In Orange » Charley Boorman http://blog.alexvanniekerk.com Thouranges... Wed, 21 Jul 2010 10:37:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 The long way round http://blog.alexvanniekerk.com/2007/the-long-way-round/ http://blog.alexvanniekerk.com/2007/the-long-way-round/#comments Sun, 02 Sep 2007 17:02:37 +0000 Alex http://blog.alexvanniekerk.com/?p=46 As you’ll know Hunny & I are both bikers. We’re a bit late on the trend but we’ve just finished watching “The long way round“. Ewan McGregor and his mate Charley Boorman rode two BMW Adventures from London, across some of the roughest terrain imaginable in Europe (Think Kazakhstan, Mongolia, and the infamous ‘road of bones‘ in Russia), with a quick flight across to Alaska and down to New York.

115 Days,  30,395 km. Makes our little 4 000 km Cape Town trip sound like something that aught to have been done with training wheels!

If you are into biking and can get your hands on it, this is a great series (10 episodes). The countries that they ride through are so remote but beautiful, and the people so unbelieveably friendly. I’m a little green around the edges with envy, but I’m not sure I have the strength of body or character to pull that off. I have a new found respect for Ewan, some days you could see that the going was really getting them down (12 hours, 70 miles?) but he preserved in a way you wouldn’t immediately expect from a Hollywood actor.

So if you have a few spare evenings, and biking is your thing, give it a watch, I’m sure you won’t be disappointed.

As a footnote, the same two blokes just recently travelled down Africa on their bikes, the dvd/book or whatever is on it’s way soon (October 2007). I’d be interested to see their opinions on yout continent.

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