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Wasp Hunting

Have you ever seen two grown men be so afraid of something so small! Still I think we won this one though!

Greetings from Tangiers and Archaron update

Hello again loyal readers, all 7 of you at least, and greetings from North Africa! Yes we have actually made it this far coming ashore at the port of Tangiers, however like a Dan Brown novel you will have to wait a few pages to find out what the hell is going on.

This is largely because as some of the bright sparks out there may have noticed Tangiers is some 1000 km as the crow flies from where we were last.

As we left it last our intrepid band of explorers, or idiots whichever way you want to look at it were in a fantastic camp site outside of Archaron, that evening we met four english lads who had some interesting information for us. It seems that people were actually paying attention to the, "what interesting thing are you doing today" phone in on Vernon Kaye's show, that is to say other than those people Iain forced into listening to it! The lads informed us that they had heard it and for some strange reason when they saw a black cab with palm trees on the side, in the south of France that it may well be us! It seems that makes us at least partially famous, at least as famous as these guys whom ever they may be....

Im sure I have seen a few of this lot serving in subway on the TCR. Mind you I hear the one on the far left is attempting to carve out a career as a professional Jo Brand impersonator so maybe we wont be as famous as her for very long.

Anywhoo back to us, after the battle of the atlantic you may have witnessed the opening slavo of in the previous post we headed out and of course found the one thing you can always count on finding anywhere in the world, an english pub. While normally our motto is "when in Rome", this was too good to pass up thanks to the magnetic personality of the landlord Paul, and made even harder when he offered to buy us a drink! For those of you who ever make it to Archaron make sure you chek out the Moby Dick.
The next evening we left the streets behind and attempted to answer a question rarely posed before, just how many people can you involve in a party inside a london taxi? The answer is actually 15, included the english guys already mentioned an australian, a welshman several frenchmen plus some additional english that we enticed in with our conversational skills. This part however did not go down well with the camp site who attempted to evict us in the early hours of the morning. This as future updates will show will become a reoccuring them!

The next day despite a very generous offer to race for pink slips as the americans say we set off for warmer pastures as Bendigo's skills as a rainmaker were still in full effect.

Sorry for the slow rate of updates but arabic keyboards are a little hard for me to use! Next up Biarritz, a new member of the team, along with a shocking revalation that would change everything!

See I told you, this is just like a Dan Brown novel it even has a cliffhanger at the end of the chapter.

Control Room

Like the Long Way down, at Sahara Cabs we too have a dedicated and professional support team to aid us on our journey.

Travel in Style

Below you can see what sets us apart from the rest it is our attention to detail shown here by our hand painted exterior




All artwork done by Luke @ Urban Species www.urbanspecies.co.uk

Road Entertainment

Iain really wants to be a popstar, keeping spirits up with a splendid rendition of a true classic

Arrival in France

Plotting a takeover based on historical evidence of cowardice in the face of invaders

Departure from sunny England

Our Fleet

This is the pride and joy of the Sahara Cabs fleet, Hackney Harriet and the video below demonstrates some of the numerous features it boasts. As you can see our sales rep has an extensive knowledge of said features.

Preparation

We at Sahara Cabs like to operate within all health and saftey guidlines at all times, and are very proud of our mechanical know how when it comes to maintainence.

Hello All

Hello one and all, im sure you will all be pleased to know that sahara cabs has made it to Arcachon, a journey of some 1000 miles. The trip began from Brick Lane and we quickly winged our way to dover under the expert guidence of driver Bendigo while Iain and Nathan chose to continue getting into the spirt of things with some continental beer.

On the left our three intrepid explorers and those who came to see us off. (Not pictured envy)


Upon our arrival in Dover we met a splendid chap by the name of Mariuz, a crazy Romanian van driver on his way to Amsterdam allegedly on "business". He was kind enough to introduce us to an unspecified Romanian moonshine made from cherries, while at first taste this was tasty we soon realised it was rather more potent than anticipated. All of this may explain Iains rather liberal use of the ferrys tannoy system! The staff were not amused.


After the ferry, Bendigo drove onwards through northern france towards Normandy and Ohmaha beach, while an unspecified member of the group put in a sterling performance in staying awake to support the driver, Iain slept in the back, a theme that would recur throughout the day.


While Ohmaha beach was interesting unfortunatly we soon found that with the exception of the bar there, Northern France was closed.

This is pretty much what we found everywhere, i think they used an english sign just to make it all the more irritating.

After spending the night in what can only be described as a ghost town we set off again for warmer weather, this was of course after contemplating going to Brest mainly because it had a funny name, apparently we are all still quite childish, who knew.... As a strange coincidence the locals refer to it as "le Mamelon de Francais". For those of you with GSCE French I think you will agree it is quite apt.

Day 2 Video


With us all in agreement that Northern France was essentially rubbish and shut, we hit the the road and headed south towards Bordeaux, settling on probably the worlds best campsite in the outskirts of Arcachon. As far as we were concerned this was a succesful mission as we had hit 28 degree heat a far cry from london, somewhere we were informed was grey and wet.

Tents errected, we set out on our first night out to see what larks could be had. Deciding as we were by the sea that sea food was in order so we selected a restaurant mainly because they were showing the football. What followed can only be described as a battle of biblical proportions as three brave travellers took on what looked like half the Atlantic.



Until next time, we hope all those who are at work have their day brightened by our exploits. Next stop who knows.....

Welcome to Sahara Cabs

Welcome one and all to the greatest taxi service this side of Timbuktu, no fare to big or too small, and a promise of no journey refused!

Currently all of our experienced and professional drivers are occupied on a job of epic proportions, so please be patient, but fear not our fleet of one 1992 fairway fx4 will soon be available for all your travel needs. Until then this page will serve as a testament to the dedication we have to our craft

Yours in service as always

Shaq El Hoorie

CEO Sahara Cabs