ARABIA TO AFRICA (THE DOCUMENTARY)

I am pleased to announce that we have a couple of fabulous fabulous women on board to help out with the research and production for the documentary film we will be shooting at the same time as the travel show!
Lisa Buschek, (left picture)our documentary co-producer and head researcher, is putting together everything we need to film orphanages throughout the journey with a focus on Zimbabwe so we can raise awareness, and hopefully funding, for our incredible country! Thanks for being involved hun!

Our second fabulous lady who is offering us her medical expertise and helping with the mountains of research is Dr Reham Awwad (right picture). Both women are currenty based in Dubai but I'm sure with enough convincing they'll definitely join us in Zimbabwe for the final leg of our journey to make sure we get all the footage necessary to make our documentary a success! thanks ladies!

FILMING THE PILOT

So off we went on a mini adventure to film the pilot for ARABIA TO AFRICA. we chose sharm el sheikh and Cairo as we figured there'd be fantastic and varied footage, especially if we spliced the diving shots of the red sea with footage of the pyramids. it wan an amazing amazing trip, we got some great footage, got acquainted with the fabulous JVC cameras and now feel much more confident in our material, the equipment and ourselves.














the only thing i'll say about Sharm is, while it is a fun, tourist fliled party town, it is damn expensive! definitely dive the red sea while you're there and if you have you advanced padi- then try the thistlegorm wreck dive! it's a 32 m deep 2nd world war carrier ship and you get to explore inside it! very exciting!















This is the 3 hour long journey to the thistlegorm wreck site. it doesn't look like it but it's 5 am!

so now we're ready for action!
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PROTECHnology AND APPLE ARE ONBOARD!

The fabulous JVC camera we are being given is directly compatible with apple mac and final cut pro ...so PROTECHnology (who are suppliers of apple products in dubai) have very kindly agreed to give us an apple laptop for the trip. it just gets better and better!! thanks guys!
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WE HAVE A CAR!!!!

This beauty is the nissan xterra and yes we are driving this amazing vehicle from Dubai all the way to Capetown! and the best part is -it has a custom built tent that pops out of the back of the car! prety huh? thanks nissan! we look forward to driving this through mud, stones, water etc. hope you don't mind ;-)

BUSY BUSY BUSY

So today we picked up our amazing JVC GZ HD 320b EVERIO CAMCORDER. It's an amazing little camcorder that records in full hd to the hard drive and it has 120gb! awesome! cheers JVC!- we also have an underwater housing for great diving shots.
check out http://www.jvc-me.com/ for all their product details or http://www.jvc.com/ globally.
ticking boxes as we speak
lots of love