Events : London-Cape Town, day eight

Keith Adams

After a week, the teams now touch down into Africa. This is where things should start to get even more challenging

Day eight
Alexandria, Egypt

After 36-hours at sea, the teams have arrived in Africa. Getting a car into Egypt is a bureaucratic nightmare, and that’s a challenge for first thing tomorrow… But that’s after the ferry gets into port safely!

The harbour of Alexander the Great and Cleopatra is littered with the wrecks of ships where other captains got it wrong – the various mistakes in navigation in recent years are plainly on view off the port side, with containers being pounded by waves of cargo-ships lurched to one side. Egypt’s paralysed authorities are incapable of organising a salvage of the wrecks that have turned the route to the quay into such a tricky obstacle-course.

Today is an easy transport day past Cairo to a hotel beside the Red Sea. This is a rare moment of peace before the madness!

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Keith Adams

Editor and creator AROnline at AROnline

Created www.austin-rover.co.uk in 2001 and built it up to become the world's foremost reference source for all things BMC, Leyland and Rover Group, before renaming it AROnline in 2007.

Is the Editor of the Parkers website and price guide, formerly editor of Classic Car Weekly, and launch editor/creator of Modern Classics magazine. Has contributed to various motoring titles including Octane, Practical Classics, Evo, Honest John, CAR magazine, Autocar, Pistonheads, Diesel Car, Practical Performance Car, Performance French Car, Car Mechanics, Jaguar World Monthly, MG Enthusiast, Modern MINI, Practical Classics, Fifth Gear Website, Radio 4, and the the Motoring Independent...

Likes 'conditionally challenged' motors and taking them on unfeasible adventures all across Europe.

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