brussels airlines
b.spirit! magazine
sep-oct
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CHARITYRALLY }
budapest to bamako
or bust
The Great African Run is an epic adventure, the biggest amateur rally in the world and the
chance to make a difference, writes motoring guru
Ray Leathern
dventuring is not a solitary endeavour. Of course, rather
obviously, you can’t just step out your house and walk
aimlessly down the road to find something you’ve never
found before. One needs a reliable mode of transport
that will take you there. Secondly, you need like-minded
individuals to plan, share your experiences, and hopefully be just
as reliable as the machines when it truly counts. These people are
known as ‘car people’ and the gist of it is that car people are the
best people in the world. They’re certainly the only ones you
want to have around on a 9,900km adventure skirting out of
Europe and down the Western edge of Africa. Those of a too
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scrupulous nature won’t find what they’re looking for here, move
along. Car people always make sure they only live carefully
enough to never miss a drink, an adventure, a fast trans-Saharan
drive and a chance to make a difference. This is the 2013
Budapest to Bamako Great African Run, the biggest amateur rally
in the world, and it’s all for charity.
You could say Andrew, the talisman and organiser of the
Budapest to Bamako, has created a spiritual heir to the classic
Dakar. He is an internet entrepreneur and after trying to enter
the Dakar in 2005 but not being able due to a lack of funds, he
decided to create a kinder, gentler, more liberal and affordable
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