KALAHARI Ferrari

WHAT triggered this quest of yours? My first trip abroad was to Los Angeles and San Francisco in the 1970s. This was followed by a trip through Africa on the back of a Bedford lorry in the 1980s. Then came a short trip to South America followed by Asia. I was young and that was what youngsters did back then.

Then in 2005 someone said to me how many countries have you been to? It was just under 100, so I thought to myself that I might as well do them all. There are 193 countries recognised by the United Nations, I have now done 184 of them so there are only nine left to do. They are Syria, Eritrea, Verde, Equatorial Guinea, Comoros, Madagascar, Mauritius, Sri Lanka and the Central African Republic.

There was but the pandemic changed all of that of course. I was supposed to go to Nordkapp this summer but my work load has not allowed for it. I normally work during the summer months and then try and get away from about November through to March. I took three years off in 2012 to just travel in the Defender and did several legs including Kurdistan and Southern Africa. During this I would sometimes park