Karma Forge

Peniche to Vilamoura Our last day in Baleal dawned slightly overcast and windy as we waited to return a wetsuit to the owner of Baia De P...

Veja de la Frontera After two days of driving, in which we stumbled upon Carnival in Cadiz which was an amazing city wide street party we...

I haven’t written much since that day we took off from Spain, I think the enormity of what has happened this year, and the grief of what w...

One day we were out having dinner at a beautiful restaurant and the next complete lockdown. Overnight the buzzing little town we were in,...

Peniche to Vilamoura Our last day in Baleal dawned slightly overcast and windy as we waited to return a wetsuit to the owner of Baia De P...

Cabo da Roca Not having had time on the Saturday we made the trip to the Sintra region early on Sunday morning for the second time. We ha...

15 February 2020 - Sintra town Saturday the 15 February was Richard’s birthday. We had decided earlier in the week, based on the advice o...

The green light for the Tow surfing championship was issued for the 11th of February in the wake of storm Ciara crossing the Atlantic. Th...

As I am sure most of you are aware, Richard and I made the decision to cancel Africa adventure this year due to Covid-19. Although this h...

Peniche Peninsular. We made the walk into Peniche on Saturday morning. When the tide is low it’s an easy 5km walk along a near-deserted b...

Week one in Baleal: 23rd - 29th January 2020 I am going to take a different approach with the blog for the next couple of months as we wi...

21st to 22nd January 2020 - The journey from Bilbao to Peniche It is rare that an alarm clock is a welcome sound, but on Tuesday morning,...

Portsmouth to Bilbao - 19th -21st January 2020 As we boarded the ship, my initial thought was that the smell was something that was goin...

19 January 2020- Bristol to Portsmouth We left Bristol later than anticipated which had me on edge from the start, which is never a good ...

We arrived back in London to rain, darkness and cold, so basically an English winter. What struck me is that it felt very much like we we...

Steering Rack So for the steering rack, I decided to use a center mount rack and pinion unit instead of the standard steering box. The ma...

The Design I needed to get someone to make up a loom for me. So I put my thoughts on paper and came up with this simple diagram. This was...

African Buggy - The Paint Job

Design Concept I had a fantastic adventure driving a beach buggy from the UK to Mongolia in 2017. At the end of the trip, I ended up walk...

Africa 2020 So this is the start of the my part in the blogging for Africa 2020. Richard will be taking care of the build blog for the bu...