Sunday a real life expedition arrived at the site: two landrovers, a small lorry-like support vehicle and a dune buggy, all sporting sponsorship logos. A BRITISH expedition, of course, with lots of good chaps running around with clip boards and bellowing down mobile phones e.g., “ look, Nigel, I need the bloody thing here NOW!”
The dune buggy is driven through the campsite at a furious rate and has a large fan device on the back. Fuzzy picture confirms the perilous speed! It turns out they fit a para-wing to it and then it’s a microlite, which they plan to fly across the Straits of Gibraltar and onwards to Timbuktu at the rate of about 100 miles a day. It’s a windy coastline, so they have to wait for a calmish day. A film crew is all part of the convoy and the end result will appear on Channel 4 sometime in June.
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