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Bericht van mn broer... niet mn pleebroer maar mn echte broer!
Komt ie:
ello, hello, hello !
Boy, a new man is typing here, this time for sure and hopefully for long !
The thing that changed me ?
A package from Holland.
But lets start at the beginning: leaving Rockanje I was asking road directions to Cape Town hahaha, a lady looked a little strange at me, I asked, at Hoevelaken rechtsaf toch ???
No serious, I left Bamenda with a 20 km climb, between 8 and 15 percent ....Some hard work !
And unexpected, so even harder ...
I still cycled 90 km that day, with more then 1600 altitude meters not too bad.
Looking for a house to camp because bushcamping is impossible here in Cameroon, due to dense jungle, impossible to picht a tent.
So since I left N.....a , hahaha, I am house camping !
Sometimes very nice, one night was not so good, a women in this little village was argueing, shooting for more than an hour, when she stopped some guy's started fighting and jelling, all night long it seemed ...
Even my earplugs didn't help much.
So, house camping and .... every day is a palm wine tour, people selling it along the road, a liter for only 16 cents
Bit you have to taste, hips, a lot before you have the right, hips one. Some are sweet and sour, mjammie, some are rather tasteless.
It is very nice to drink I can tell !
So, drunk as hell haha just kidding, I arrived in Yaounde, where I found my guesthouse very quick, thanks to the very good city maps in the Lonely Planet, dumped my bags and raced to the Post Office, to look if my package had arrived>the lady told me to look it up myself in a book and the last name in it was mine
! So just arrived I think.
I started to jump a little around, arms in the air and a big smile on my face, jippie !! It arrived !!!
Racing back to my guesthouse and opening it was like christmas, all the ' presents ' inside, a special pump for my front suspension, a new zipper for my tent, enough needles to start a business, a new hook for one of my bags which was broken, a roadmap of southern Africa, a Lonely Planet of
southern africa and a christmastcard, how nice
and last but not least, a VISA creditcard, so I am able to use the ATM machines here and in coming countries, almost none of them support Mastercard which is useless here ...
And so my mind and mood changed, within seconds because ....I was this close of coming back home, all morning I was thinking of flying back to Holland and I have to be honest, the feeling it gave me was more than good ...
So I was pretty determined, even with the package which I then wouldn't need anymore that I was going back home, the idea was to surprise my father on his birhtday, the 26 th of januari.
Sorry dad, I booked today a flight, not back to Holland but to .....
LUSAKA , ZAMBIA !
Great great just great !
Had to use the VISA creditcard to pay which was only possible in the Hilton hotel were there was a travel agency, even the Kenya airways office in town didin't want my creditcard.... sometimes Africa is so tyring and rediculous !
Now I am flying coming tuesday to Lusaka for a lot of reasons, I am home sooner ( good for my work ( I can start again were I left, isn't that great !!! )),
back before the famous hemelvaarttrektocht van de wereldfietser, I see my family and friends sooner, I can buy that more then great motorbike I saw on the website of Rockanje Motors ( a red Honda racebike 750 cc and above all, I am
avoiding rainy season in Gabon, Congo and DR Congo, where, when it rains roads become impossible to ride.
So I just fly over the clouds, isn't that great !?!
I am so happy, I can typ foreever but my time is running out, therefore, See you again, from Zambia , yahoooooooooooo !!!!!!!
Komt ie:
ello, hello, hello !
Boy, a new man is typing here, this time for sure and hopefully for long !
The thing that changed me ?
A package from Holland.
But lets start at the beginning: leaving Rockanje I was asking road directions to Cape Town hahaha, a lady looked a little strange at me, I asked, at Hoevelaken rechtsaf toch ???
No serious, I left Bamenda with a 20 km climb, between 8 and 15 percent ....Some hard work !
And unexpected, so even harder ...
I still cycled 90 km that day, with more then 1600 altitude meters not too bad.
Looking for a house to camp because bushcamping is impossible here in Cameroon, due to dense jungle, impossible to picht a tent.
So since I left N.....a , hahaha, I am house camping !
Sometimes very nice, one night was not so good, a women in this little village was argueing, shooting for more than an hour, when she stopped some guy's started fighting and jelling, all night long it seemed ...
Even my earplugs didn't help much.
So, house camping and .... every day is a palm wine tour, people selling it along the road, a liter for only 16 cents
Bit you have to taste, hips, a lot before you have the right, hips one. Some are sweet and sour, mjammie, some are rather tasteless.
It is very nice to drink I can tell !
So, drunk as hell haha just kidding, I arrived in Yaounde, where I found my guesthouse very quick, thanks to the very good city maps in the Lonely Planet, dumped my bags and raced to the Post Office, to look if my package had arrived>the lady told me to look it up myself in a book and the last name in it was mine
! So just arrived I think.
I started to jump a little around, arms in the air and a big smile on my face, jippie !! It arrived !!!
Racing back to my guesthouse and opening it was like christmas, all the ' presents ' inside, a special pump for my front suspension, a new zipper for my tent, enough needles to start a business, a new hook for one of my bags which was broken, a roadmap of southern Africa, a Lonely Planet of
southern africa and a christmastcard, how nice
and last but not least, a VISA creditcard, so I am able to use the ATM machines here and in coming countries, almost none of them support Mastercard which is useless here ...And so my mind and mood changed, within seconds because ....I was this close of coming back home, all morning I was thinking of flying back to Holland and I have to be honest, the feeling it gave me was more than good ...
So I was pretty determined, even with the package which I then wouldn't need anymore that I was going back home, the idea was to surprise my father on his birhtday, the 26 th of januari.
Sorry dad, I booked today a flight, not back to Holland but to .....
LUSAKA , ZAMBIA !
Great great just great !
Had to use the VISA creditcard to pay which was only possible in the Hilton hotel were there was a travel agency, even the Kenya airways office in town didin't want my creditcard.... sometimes Africa is so tyring and rediculous !
Now I am flying coming tuesday to Lusaka for a lot of reasons, I am home sooner ( good for my work ( I can start again were I left, isn't that great !!! )),
back before the famous hemelvaarttrektocht van de wereldfietser, I see my family and friends sooner, I can buy that more then great motorbike I saw on the website of Rockanje Motors ( a red Honda racebike 750 cc
and above all, I am avoiding rainy season in Gabon, Congo and DR Congo, where, when it rains roads become impossible to ride.
So I just fly over the clouds, isn't that great !?!
I am so happy, I can typ foreever but my time is running out, therefore, See you again, from Zambia , yahoooooooooooo !!!!!!!