Today supposed to be a rest day with only 150km to drive, but we missed the low tide and had to drive in deep sand on the beach, which, together with the week cooling of the Beast, was kind of exhausting (for the Beast and for us). In Nouakchott (the capital of Mauritania) our first goal was “car parts city”, a suburb of garages and used parts dealers. Of course all of them knew how to repair our coolant tank, or they knew somebody who knew, or they knew somebody who knew somebody else who knew where to get a spare part. It was a real African experience. Finally a young boy was showing us a backyard out of town with some rusty skeletons of Nissan Patrols, and one of them still had the tank. Then came the price negotiation, which took equally long. We managed to reduce the price to ~17 Euros plus a t-shirt, two torches, some ballpoint pens, and we also traded in our compressed air horn (Michal is really sad about that, his favorite pastime was to blow it inside the car, but the rest of the team is happy to survive the trip without serious hearing damage).
There was not too much time left to have a look at Nouakchott, we found a street market and spent most of the time around that place.
Chippendale No. 2: WE ARE SORRY, THIS PICTURE HAS BEEN AUTOMATICALLY REMOVED BY PARENTAL CONTROL
I am sure that Michal will find something else to entertain himself 🙂
I just wonder what Chippendale No. 2 picture was.
I love the negotiation skills – thanks for taking us with you on your journey (virtually ;))
I am also interested in the Chippendale No. 2 picture, what a pity that it was deleted. 🙂 Anyway, the already uploaded pictures are really nice as well. I just hope that you made a video of the price negotiation maybe we can use it as a training here. :))
I think the parents are too rigorous 🙂
Me too, I am looking forward to seeing No. 2.! Anyway, No. 1 already tells a lot: just reading where you are, one could be mislead to expect the colour of the body darker, water lighter and the smile a little less frozen 😉 Poor you, guys, you even start to look skinny. 😉
Take care!