Well it had to happen. If you travel through Africa long enough, you’re more than likely to contract malaria. And we both picked it up… at the same time! Maybe it was the same mozzie that got us? Luckily we were still in Ghana and close to good medical help, though the half day spent [...]

It’s around 600km to the Atlantic coast from Togo’s border with Burkina Faso. Instead of simply taking the asphalt road directly south to Lome (which by all accounts is boring), we thought we’d ride around northern Togo a bit, cross into Benin, then make our way south to the coast before crossing back into Togo [...]