As we go into Morocco I am presented with my first challenge – customs. It is notoriously hard at any African border and the perhaps the reputation precedes them among travellers. I remember being nervous just from hearing other stories. As a rule, filming anywhere near officialdom in any country […]
Monthly archives: March 2005
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Once we are near Gibraltar I decide that I’ll talk a little to camera in a kind of diary style fashion. I really loathe this type of thing as it has become quite common on television, but my pieces to camera ended up being quite integral to the feature. In […]
We head from Bilbao towards Madrid and camp a bit further in St. Elena. I film loads of footage at this stage which ultimately makes up seconds in the title sequence. I film about three hours of footage before we enter Morocco and it ends up being five minutes of […]
There is not you can do with 24 hours on a boat. After my twentieth walk around the shop I go upstairs to spend the remaining 23 hours in the restaurant, cinema and deck. I’m thinking what to make of this film…
It is the morning after a bad night’s sleep, and Paul and I have a ‘business breakfast’ at work. Quite why we had to invite the Chamber of Commerce to a breakfast on a Friday morning I have no idea. Anyway, Paul and I are sat as representatives of the […]
James: Yeah, so just as soon as we start, I head to Morocco. Needless to say, this puts a bit of a stop on Peppermint things temporarily…