First of all, thakns for following in such a number! I really appreciate.
I'm on holiday now:)
After my bar tending duties yesterday I had to reprovision the bar. At first I thought it's gonna be easy. Because I have Amadou, my new friend and business partner I thought it's gonna be just making the list of drinks and pay. But It's not that easy. When I showed the list, nothing was available at the moment and especially not in such quantity (we're talking of 10 bottles of Coke and similar things). And because I figured out that this might take a few days, I decided to take the situation in my hands.
That's how it looks shopping for 15l of coke, 10l of tonic and some club soda.
Find a taxi. Luckily that part is easy, most of the times they find you.
Set a price and have small notes in your pocket. That can be stressfull at times, but I have Nanga, my personal driver, who can be an asshole, but I know his weak spot. If you don't like the price (usually they try to change it at the end of the ride), just pretend you're deeply hurt because of that:)
Or even better, if you know the rider, have no money at all.
So I went to the first real cash and carry look alike. Cash King... full of useless stuff. No coke, no tonic, no water...
Another "western" shop. Outrageous prices (2 liters of coke 2000CFA) and very out of stock all the time.
Cadil - it's my favourite one, you have everything in limited quantity.
So I borrowed 20000CFA from the taxi driver and collected almost all that I planned to buy.
It's interesting the reason why you cant get tonic water. It's because it's rain season time and in Senegal, the main anti malaria remedy seems to be exactly tonic water.
After this educational morning I spent some time talking to people, helping the guys with water provisioning and impregnating my clothes with pyrethrine. Die mosquitoes, die! I see it's working, coz while I'm writing this, the flies that stay on me for too long, don't seem to be so alive anymore.
And almost all the new crew is here and I must say I'm not very excited. Even though they seem nice, the average age is 100 (if you include me). So I guess there will not be much fun on this boat. But at least we'll see crocodiles.
I'm lazy to upload the new pics, because I'm getting african I think.
but as we say: " I'm on holiday, you're on holiday, everybody holiday!"
I'm on holiday now:)
After my bar tending duties yesterday I had to reprovision the bar. At first I thought it's gonna be easy. Because I have Amadou, my new friend and business partner I thought it's gonna be just making the list of drinks and pay. But It's not that easy. When I showed the list, nothing was available at the moment and especially not in such quantity (we're talking of 10 bottles of Coke and similar things). And because I figured out that this might take a few days, I decided to take the situation in my hands.
That's how it looks shopping for 15l of coke, 10l of tonic and some club soda.
Find a taxi. Luckily that part is easy, most of the times they find you.
Set a price and have small notes in your pocket. That can be stressfull at times, but I have Nanga, my personal driver, who can be an asshole, but I know his weak spot. If you don't like the price (usually they try to change it at the end of the ride), just pretend you're deeply hurt because of that:)
Or even better, if you know the rider, have no money at all.
So I went to the first real cash and carry look alike. Cash King... full of useless stuff. No coke, no tonic, no water...
Another "western" shop. Outrageous prices (2 liters of coke 2000CFA) and very out of stock all the time.
Cadil - it's my favourite one, you have everything in limited quantity.
So I borrowed 20000CFA from the taxi driver and collected almost all that I planned to buy.
It's interesting the reason why you cant get tonic water. It's because it's rain season time and in Senegal, the main anti malaria remedy seems to be exactly tonic water.
After this educational morning I spent some time talking to people, helping the guys with water provisioning and impregnating my clothes with pyrethrine. Die mosquitoes, die! I see it's working, coz while I'm writing this, the flies that stay on me for too long, don't seem to be so alive anymore.
And almost all the new crew is here and I must say I'm not very excited. Even though they seem nice, the average age is 100 (if you include me). So I guess there will not be much fun on this boat. But at least we'll see crocodiles.
I'm lazy to upload the new pics, because I'm getting african I think.
but as we say: " I'm on holiday, you're on holiday, everybody holiday!"
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