Day 122: Expat Sunday life
Soutpiel Safari
John & Jenny
Sun 6 Mar 2011 18:58
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Day 122: Sunday 6 March 2011. Yacht Club, Pointe
Noire, Congo. S04 47.386 E011 50.877. Distance driven 0 km.
For a change we had a "lie-in" being Sunday, to 0730
instead of the usual 0630. We just worked out that over the last 3 days we
have driven 750 km in 27 hours of driving, that's an average of only 28 km/hour!
That shows the state of the roads.
So today we decided we would do very little. Jenny
did the washing, I cleaned out the inside of the car and we just sat in the
shade and watched the French expat community play at their Yacht Club. It
was fascinating to watch a few fat Frenchmen posuers instruct a group of blacks
to prepare their Hobie Cats, rig them and take them to the water's edge,
whereupon they would emerge from the bar with an elegant black
girlfriend, step aboard and gently sail off. Reverse procedure when sailing had
finished! Jenny is getting quite excited about a black deckhand aboard Al
Shaheen!
Once the Oasis truck had gone we parked the Land Rover
under the shade of a palm tree and relaxed. It was frankly too hot to do
anything other than just sit. Once the sun had gone down and the crowds of local
boys had gone I went for a long swim which was
delightful.
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