On paper it all sounds very simple:
Buy a left-hand drive car for around a hundred pounds and then spend about fifteen pounds on preparing it.

Next, just drive it some six thousand kilometers to Banjul, the capital of The Gambia, passing through France, Spain, Morocco, Western Sahara, Mauritania and Senegal en-route.

By the time we reach our destination we'll have had to deal with self-destructing cars, extremes of weather, the Sahara desert, a minefield and crooked officialdom.

We start sometime around December 29th and the whole trip should take around twenty-one days.

On arrival in Banjul the surviving vehicles are handed over to the organisers who then dispose of them in a public auction to raise funds to aid Gambian charities.

APPROXIMATE SCHEDULE:

Day 1: Depart from the UK
Day 2: Arrive in France and drive to border with Spain
Day 3: Drive through Spain and down to Gibraltar
Day 4: Free day to rest up & make repairs etc
Day 5: Take the ferry to Morroco. Head for Rabat
Day 6: Drive to Marrakech
Day 7: Free day to rest up & make repairs etc
Day 8: Head off to Agadir
Day 9: Drive to Laayoune
Day 10: Push on to Dakhla
Day 11: Drive to Nouadhibou
Day 12: Free day to rest up & make repairs etc
Day 13: Hit the desert. Camping overnight.
Day 14: Second desert day, through the National Park and then down the beach
Day 15: Down the coast to Nouakchott
Day 16: Drive to Zebrabar, near St Louis
Day 17: Free day to rest up, make repairs & party!
Day 18: Hangover recovery day!!
Day 19: Drive through Senegal with Customs escort.
Day 20: Drive to The Gambia
Day 21: Finish. Surviving cars will be auctioned off
Day 22: Fly home from Banjul