{"id":435282,"date":"2026-04-14T21:26:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T21:26:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/435282\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T21:26:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T21:26:19","slug":"were-driving-from-ireland-to-cape-town-in-a-20-year-old-pajero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/435282\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We\u2019re driving from Ireland to Cape Town in a 20-year-old Pajero\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\nMax Lavelle and Brendan Bergin talk about the highs and lows of taking their old SUV on a four-month trip across the African continent\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Max Lavelle (left) and Brendan Bergin on their trusty Mitsubishi Pajero\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/f9251f4d-f5c1-449f-9323-7af2bf52e55f.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Max Lavelle (left) and Brendan Bergin on their trusty Mitsubishi Pajero<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Travelling from Ireland to South Africa in a 20-year-old Mitsubishi Pajero is definitely one of the more inventive ways to spend four months, and for Max Lavelle (28) and Brendan Bergin (28), from Kilkenny and Laois respectively, the experience is turning out to be a memorable one.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The two friends are now nearing the end of their African odyssey, which began in mid-January and is expected to end in late April when they reach their final destination of Cape Town, South Africa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Max Lavelle and Brendan Bergin talk about the highs and lows of taking their old SUV on a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":435283,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[41],"tags":[9,10,99378,13,14,6,11,23,12,15,16,5,147476,152020,7,8,65,66,67],"class_list":["post-435282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-daily-features","tag-featured-news","tag-featurednews","tag-headlines","tag-latest-news","tag-latest-news-ticker","tag-latestnews","tag-main-news","tag-mainnews","tag-news","tag-shp","tag-signature-human-interest","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories","tag-world","tag-world-news","tag-worldnews"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116405180003105775","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=435282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435282\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/435283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=435282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}