A while back we sat glued to the couch watching Ewan McGregor and Charlie Boorman travel around the world on motorbikes as one of our tv channel showed a rerun of the documentary. We knew they had also done a trip from Europe to Africa and just recently we managed to get hold of the dvd. Without blinking we watched the six episodes in three nights, sometimes pointing out the differences between their trip and ours, sometimes giggling like kids at the thought of us getting to experience similar things. Starting up the third or fourth episode Brian said “It’s funny, it feels like I know these guys.”
It was a great inspiration watching the Long Way Down documentary and we felt we could really learn something from their mistakes, number one being have more time to travel. They only had three months and constantly had to get back on the road. Other than that, the major difference is obviously also that we travel by car. Oh, and that they have a crap load of money compared to us. It was a bit frustrating seeing how they rented a huge warehouse and made it into a garage, workshop and office, just to prepare the equipment for the trip. But they took pretty much the route we want to take and they saw a lot of the things we would like to see. Whether you’re into travelling or not, the whole thing is quite entertaining.
Click here to watch all the episodes on Youtube.
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