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Samstag, 20. Januar 2007

Back to Europe?

We made it to Nairobi! Can you believe it? No, we did not take the old Italian road build in the early 1900s for a counter attack on the English and no, we did not visit Lake Turkana and no, we do still not trust our car. Yes, we still take way too heavy passengers and yes, our car still breaks down due to weight and bad roads. And you know what, the roads in northern Kenya are really bad. First attempt to leave Moyale (the border between Ethiopia and Kenya): shock absorber off. Second attempt: 100+ kg primary school teacher loaded. Back springs broken 20km out of Moyale. Third attempt: Dodgy springs fitted leaving 3cm of space between axle and chassis (without 100kg of teacher that was). Can you imagine what that does to your car on a bad road? Yes, it bashes the car into pieces. We just made it to the tarmac, just. With the tarmac we also hit civilisation again and it came so quickly that we were afraid of it and wanted to go back to Ethiopia. Kenya is like Europe and nobody told us. Very strange! We went to a workshop close to Nakuru to get the car fixed. The workshop was recommended by Jarle and the work there was supposed to take 2 days. Jarle always sleeps inside his car while work is being done missing out on certain details and you can guess it, the work did not take 2 days. Instead, it took 1.5 weeks and they messed up the braking system. I know, there is no such thing as a breaking SYSTEM on our car but they still messed it up. So we headed for Nairobi to find a proper workshop which we did. Nice place, Nairobi. Traditionally, in each country we come through we visit nothing but garages and workshops. It’s the main attractions. That’s done now so we can move on to Uganda. In Nairobi we were told about a german couple whose Land Rover broke into 7 pieces or so and they were temporarily driving without oil or water in the engine This made us feel so lucky. What type of car will you buy next?

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