Long, imposing shadows grew beneath minarets as the sun crept lower. Restaurants splayed extra tables across the pavement, shared by ravenous customers: impatient men in front of full plates, women restraining too eager children. A loudspeaker crackled, the muezzin announced the sun’s departure, and the hungry ate.
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London to Shanghai, overland: Our first journey, of 39 000 kilometres, through 18 countries in 18 months.
Shanghai to Cape Town, overland: Once, as the song goes, is never enough. We’re haven’t embarked on our journey home yet, so there’s not much to report. There will be soon.
Old World Wandering: A Travelogue by Iain Manley & Claire van den Heever is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.