African Adventure Motorcycle Travel

The Book of the Blog of the Trip

The African Brew Ha Ha keeps brewing ...

African Brew Ha Ha - the book - will soon be available to all the abhaha fans who could not get enough of the blog!

Publication of the book about my tea tour through Africa is due in April 2010 in the UK from the good people at Summersdale. Then who knows!

I've already had a great endorsement from travel writer Peter Moore who read an early draft of the book. Always thought he was a man of good taste.

Tea Tour (read this first!)

The African Brew Ha Ha is a 10-month project culminating in a 4-5 month motorcycle trip from Lancashire, UK, to Cape Town, South Africa.
The journey is a search for the ultimate cuppa. While there are a few different strands to the project, there are three predominant objectives:

1. To compare the ritual of having tea in the UK with that in Africa by having tea at every opportunity, both in the UK and with people I meet en route
2. Get to Cape Town in one piece (with the bike) by February 2008
3. To support education and health projects in the shanty town of Imizamu Yethu in Hout Bay, Cape Town, home to the workers at Original Tea Bag Designs (a project supported by the Rotary Club of Blackpool Sunrise, in sunny Blackpool, UK)

Please click around the site to discover more - categories and recent posts on the right, photo albums on the left.

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You Can Help

To make the project a success, I need to have as many ‘Tea Encounters’ in the UK as possible before I leave on October 2 2007 – the more diverse the better. Invite me over for tea and find out more (THIS IS NOT FUNDRAISING, WHICH IS DONE SEPARATELY). To see some of the people I have met so far, click on Tea Encounters - UK.

Do you know someone who lives or works in Africa?

Yes? I would love to visit them for tea. I'm not yet sure of my exact schedule but I will certainly do my best to visit.

All the tea bags collected from these stops will be used by Original Tea Bag Designs to create more amazing products and help the employment prospects of the workers in the project. If you haven't already checked them out, OTBD decorate gift products with used, dried, emptied, ironed, then superbly painted tea bags donated from people from all over the world (no exaggeration).

Be part of the ultimate tea tour and put your tea bags to a unique and never-to-be-repeated event (the wife would never let me do it twice)!