Celtic Rover
We travelled down to Cape Town today through the Northern Cape, which is lovely countryside all the way down, good mountains and surprisingly little population. Our mission was to lay a claim to the title of “the most travelled Icarus” in Cape Town the home of the Icarus roof conversion that we fitted to Nelson more than 6 years ago. Since then we have covered 72 countries and the roof and its sleeping system have served us very well.
Today we returned to the factory where it was made and had a chance to talk to the team there including Warick Leslie who had helped me out a couple of times with seals and bits for the roof when I was between trips. We were warmly welcomed by the Alu Cab team and had a good discussion about the trips and the design of the roof. We talked about a more robust and better insulated version for the European climate
With new caps and T-shirts we headed into Cape Town for a good steak, mine meat, marks cauliflower! A big marathon in Cape Town means the town will be packed this weekend so we are heading off along the coast to the end of Africa…
Lets see if the record is challenged once we post it up on the Alu Cab page
