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“A marvellous piece of history"
BBC Breakfast News
Welcome to the first dispatch from The Last Overland team in 2020, and what a strange world we find ourselves in. Wherever you are, we hope you're safe and well.
Join TLO's Alex Bescoby for a live online Q&A on Wednesday with Bremont Watches
When we came up with "The Last Overland" as our expedition's title, we didn't know how badly we were tempting fate. Completing such a journey in the near future now seems like a distant hope, and as our team gets used to life on lockdown we all count our blessings for the window we had.
All of us - Tim included - are safe and well at home. Like many we've been trying to put this time of enforced stillness to good use. Work on the TV series is racing ahead (see a sneak peek below), and Alex is almost half way through his book!
This week, Alex is giving his first live Q&A about every aspect of the Expedition as part of Bremont's Adventure Club! Bremont Watches were one of the brilliant supporters of our Expedition, and we're delighted that Alex is going to be spilling The Last Overland beans with one of Bremont's brilliant founders, Giles English. Alex will also be giving some sneak peeks from the upcoming series - don't miss out!
Hear all about it! Marcus, Leopold & Alex (and their Bremont watches) in Uzbekistan!
IN OTHER NEWS...
Alex has been locked away (even before lockdown) writing the book about The Expedition. Now it's not often when you're battling a bit of writer's block that you get a letter from Sir David Attenbourgh!
Sir David supported Tim and co's First Overland expedition back in 1955, and he was kindly writing to Alex in response to an article about The Last Overland in The Telegraph in February. Click on the image below if you missed it!
We're also hard at work pulling together the TV series about the Expedition. Thanks for everyone who's written in to us about it, we should have some news on that in the next few weeks! It's a big old job...
But to thank you for your patience, we thought you might like this little clip from Assam where we were lucky enough to stumble on a wonderful piece of First Overland history...
Thanks for reading this special dispatch. We hope to see some of you on Wednesday with Bremont, and we'll be in touch very soon with news on the TV series and the book release dates. Until then, stay safe and well and keep dreaming of adventures new.
We'll meet again (to quote HM The Queen.)
Team TLO x
