4 A World of
Stories Where
you’ve been this issue
6 The Quintissential Road Trip
8 New Zealand 10 Palestinian Terrotories 12 India
14 In An Ancient Army Truck Majestic gorillas deep in Uganda
22 Worth Its Salt Beauty in the Bolivian highlands
32 Paris To Peking Classic car race of epic proportions
40 Mongol Rally Discovering the wildnerness
48 London To Nepal On 2 Wheels Crossing continents by bike
31 Road Trip Playlist Sing-along down the highway 38 Beef Pak Choi Mouth-watering recipe 39 Dear Jeroam.... Your questions answered 46 Get Involved Calling all budding writers 47 WIN A travel guide to your dream destination
52 Get The Kit Cotswolds travel must-haves
MEET THE TEAM Founder Editor abroad Laura GriffithJones
Co-editor Graphic design Dorothy Sanders
Co-editor Graphic design Jonny Miller
Finance director Advertising Ed Lane
to the first issue of the decade for ROAM – the magazine for travel-hungry students with a penchant for adventure!
Inspired by old-school travel memories, we’ve given the magazine a whole new look, with lots of exciting new features to get your toes tingling for the open road. Check out the competition on p47, get kitted out with the essential travel gear on p52, or plug into our epic road trip playlist – p31. A wise man once said, ‘there is no better time than now’, and 2010 is the year for making those ambitious travel plans. So get inspired and - excuse the terrible pun - get ROAMing! This issue is packed with fabulous travel tales, from the impenetrable forests of Uganda, to the extraordinary diversity of roads criss-crossing the Asian continent, to the hidden beauties of the desolate highlands in Bolivia...
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By Gordon Squire
S
ix weeks previously Will, John and I were gleefully waving our hoards of fans (Three parents, one brother and a stray theatrical beggar) goodbye through comfortable Sussex sunshine.
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ews of our record-breaking lap of Goodwood race circuit was already flying through the electric interweb waves on it’s way to editor’s desks at national newspapers. Our, soon to be iconic, strategies of casual tailgating and unrelentingly abusing second gear, combined with a car fitted with go-faster speed doodles and Fleetwood Mac stereo propulsion system would soon be seen percolating into top level motorsport. Giddy on optimism we sped, as fast as one can speed in a petrol powered mobility scooter laden with an obelisk of gaffer tape, into a traffic jam, into being lost, into a pickle and into an insane,
“We had eaten ‘bear’s ears’ and other indigestable obscenities at the behest of our gracious hosts.” spluttering, comedy maniac voyage. Thith ith the Mongol Wally!!!!
T
he past six weeks had brought the world rushing through our eastward-drawn carriage. We had bribed our way out of disputes with international and local law enforcers, partied with Romanian “beach” bums, drunk litres of vodka with Russian mechanics, eaten “bear ears” and other indigestible obscenities at the behest of gracious hosts, accidentally hit on a buff Ukrainian horseman at a beach rave festival, amazed and offended passers-by with our rolling Rorschach test, been robbed from by Kazakh locals and policemen alike, provided backup in a sit-com police raid, met the “president”...
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