2012 English Channel Swim

7 - 14 September 2012



After having cycled through Africa, completed 5 Ironman Triathlons, run the Comrades Ultra Marathon, Climbed Kili ... I have decided to take on a slightly tougher option ...



... 34km of cold, open water swimming ... leaving the coast of the eternal "wanna-be" soccer nation, over to the "frogs" on the other side ...





Friday 19 January 2007

Our Route to come

Tomorrow and Sunday we will be travelling down to Aswan ... about 115km each day (probably lots of traffic, chaos, etc)

On Monday we travel briefly to the ferry and then cruise over night to the Sudan landing ... at Wadi Halfa. Should arrive lunchtime on Tuesday ... expect the border process to be bureaucratic and in need of lots of patience ...

We then enter the SAND ... apparently nothing can prepare us for the barren, endless, tough and awe inspiring appearance of the Sahara Desert ...

We travel close, but not directly on the Nile, southwards through Dongola and leave the Nile at Abu Dom towards Khartoum. After Khartoum we will have a little bit of sanity and tar under our tyres as we head for Gedaref (South-East) and then really rough it down to the border to Ethiopia at Qallabat/Metema

Not sure about our Internet access in Sudan (Khartoum should have) ... so besides a possible quick "Hello" at Aswan in two days time I will be gone for a while ...

by Patrick Thomas at 09:03