It’s been nearly 5 years since we decided to ride around the world on a scooter and sidecar and the whole thing has been one hell of a journey. The trip was a couple of years in the planning, 15 months on the road and it has been 18 months since we rolled in to the Ace Cafe as the...
Today is Anti Slavery day 2018 and nearly a year to the day that we set off on our Guinness World Record breaking attempt to be the first people to ever circumnavigate the globe on a scooter with a sidecar. In that time, we’ve been using our scooter and sidecar to raise awareness of...
Way back at the start of August we crossed the Mexican border and started our trip through the USA. Our first state was Texas and we were soon in one of its major cities – Dallas. Dallas is home to over a million people and is an exceptionally cool city. It’s got an ultra-modern inner...
Mexico City is massive. It has a population of over 20 million people, making it the biggest city in the Americas and the biggest Spanish speaking city in the world. We were hanging out in this huge concrete jungle for a week or so while we were waiting for the sidecar to come. While we...
On June 17th we drove the final 700km of Colombia to reach Cartagena – our final stop in South America. Over the 3 months we were in South America we racked up 6000 miles through 5 different countries and were blown away by the breath-taking landscapes and friendly people -South America...
There are estimated to be 248,700 people living in slavery in South Africa. They’re enslaved in all different walks of life including forced labour on farms, on fishing trawlers, in domestic servitude and in the sex trade. Thankfully there are a whole host of organisations who are working...
The global slavery index estimates that there are 188,800 people living in modern slavery in Kenya. We went to visit HAART Kenya to find out more about the situation in the country and spent the morning chatting to their team about the challenges they face. When we asked them about how...
Prior to the trip we had both subconsciously flagged Sudan as one of the more intimidating places that we will visit on our route. What we knew about Sudan, was there was a lot of sand and a lot of trouble in the South. What we saw about Sudan on the news was the unrest and suffering in...
Slavery is something that has long been associated with Egypt. We all get taught in school that the Pyramids were built by slaves. And even if we weren’t listening, Hollywood catches us up with those scenes where lines of slaves drag huge chunks of rock up the side of Pyramids...
We met Click at a storytelling workshop ran by Narrative 4 here in Athens, she had many, many stories to tell. We arranged to visit Click to learn more about her unbelievable life story. It’s a tale of a normal girl who found herself fighting as a Guerrilla soldier. A soldier who...