We purchased the last items of the irrigation system on Tuesday an Janos, my teammate, delivered everything to the storage today. The cardboard box behind Janos contains the solar panels. The pipes, the pump, fittings, valves, cables, and electronics are all packed up on the pallet on the left.You can also see the rack for the solar panels in the front on the floor.

The bad news of the day is that the release bearing of the clutch of our car has developed a strange noise during the last days. The car is in the garage again, to replace the bearing the whole gearbox has to be removed.

… and our passports with the visas too. Yesterday we deposited the medicines in the storage room of the African Hungarian Union in Budapest, they take care of shipping them to Mali, where we will pick them up again at the end of January.

like every year I have to test if my sat phone is still ok and have to recharge the sim card

the procedure is the known one: me standing in the garden of my house, in clothing unsuitable for the outside temperature, trying to catch some satellite signal and swearing

if you can read this, it has finally worked