Friday, September 25, 2009

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Into the Wild: The images


The driver in a casual attitude with Miles Davis-glasses


see Yes, folks, so here, a main thoroughfare.


A truly royal animal: Lola takes the ride left.


beautiful corners to explore this country in any case more than enough to Delta with dugout canoes Panorama.


Marc reviewed the dinner: Top Dove squirrel hair down, as you can see already and skewered.


The eternal battle with the fire. We have a really good air pump, despite not being taken. In light of the Mercedes, we had at that time already filthy handsome.


The next morning, overlooking the camp, including tents, mosquito-Dome, river fishermen and curious.


Here again a complete recording of the Mercedes, which has carried us (kindly without mishap) from A to B.


The first driving lesson takes place on a remote gravel area - and makes clearly enjoyed.


What looks like the last death throes of the squirrel in this case is a consequence of the opening of cola bottles which were shaken in front of for hours in a hot car. Imitation is not recommended!

Monday, September 21, 2009

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Into the Wild

Yes, Benin is not just cities, even if because of my previous posts might well expect: I was "the land" so far only from hearsay.
high time to change that!
To this end we have on Friday with Marc (development workers from Cotonou), Alexa (from C. Entwicklungsstipendiantin), Lola (Marc's dog) and a Mercedes 290GD (old white SUV) made in order to drive out to the countryside. Since the above was due to a gearbox problem on Friday until quite late in Porto-Novo, we have the exit unceremoniously moved to Saturday after breakfast. Never mind, yes, it is planned yet anyway.
throw after breakfast then just three things in a backpack, look again briefly at the map and there you go north. We do Porto
behind us until we determine that we have forgotten to fill up, which, given the diesel engine of the Mercedes, unfortunately, only in the rare phenomenon of "filling station" is possible. So back to Porto, there are rumors because there would be something. A
Half an hour later and 15,000 francs poorer (equivalent to 30 liters of diesel), then goes really wrong. We drive, at first on the tarred road, then on the big door, often on slopes and which are just as wide as the car. We drive through villages, small towns and no man's land, have fun. You eat what you find on the street: Smoked shrimp that you eat with tanks, Baignées (something similar to a donut), Süßkartoffelbrei.
Again and again the procedure is also sometimes familiar to locals because, sometimes because people do not trust them, because sometimes you read the map wrong, sometimes because the map is wrong (swimming Mercedes can not live ...).
does not matter though, thanks to all-wheel-site translation and reverse Marc's driving skills, we all come back out and can take a different path.
the end we parked the Mercedes in a small strip of "beach" (a mixture of sand and mud) near Sagon on Oueme River. Although we drove all day, we are actually "only" 150 kilometers from Porto away. just everything takes longer here ...
We build the tent and the mosquito-Dome (an igloo-tent with mosquito net fabric) on, try us on a fire and determine shocked that we have to eat out a few bars peanut nothing to it. Do we somehow have forgotten.
Fortune sends us two hunters on the way, are for 2000 francs actually willing to sell us the daily prey: a wild pigeon and a squirrel. We decide to arrive there on a test do, it is already dark, and what else we do not get more anyway.
After the hunters we thankfully still have hair, feathers and all non-edible organs are removed, put the two animals on a stick and held over the fire.
above or what is left of it, because it will not burn easily. Although you get it again and again briefly in response, but all would promise the fire a little more sustainability, denied the cooperation. One should sacrifice not just forget the spirit of the fire ...
Despite the struggle with the fire of the two animals are ready to eat at some point, somewhere between fried and smoked. Since my stomach growl, I'll throw my principles overboard again and be pleasantly surprised: fried squirrel liver is really delicious! Should you have occasion to test strongly available in Reutlingen in the city park which.
spend the rest of the evening so we rumzudoktern on fire, with much enthusiasm but unfortunately still with limited success, to drink Sodabi-Cola to talk and to watch the stars that we spoil this night really. Although we are supported by millions literally torn to pieces by mosquitoes, but we're also your own fault if we go directly to the water.
give about ten or half eleven we become final on the fire and rescue us from the mosquitoes in the mosquito-Dome, where we stay a little bit of sitting and then finally go to sleep. Marc Alexa, and in the tent, Raph and I in the Dome, Lola under the car. Virtually to a guard dog with you, then you can at least sleep in peace, even if the ground is still very hard. Since a thin straw mat helps honestly do not. A look at the stars and the incredible background noise to sleep more than adequately compensate for slight back pain.
result of the uncomfortable sleeping position guard I already the next morning at just after six on - and only get you a little fright to the mosquito-Dome stand in a semicircle six fishermen sit and watch us while sleeping and probably wondering what we were doing. After a bit of palaver and a bottle Sodabi for men but yet they go about their work, pushing the boats into the water and disappeared one by one.
After the residue has also woken up, we pack our things together and make our way back. At the next cafeteria breakfast first: omelet with tomatoes and onions, and instant coffee to make a fit for the things that may come.
In our case, the training, with Marc. We had on the way a large, empty Erdplatz found off the road and just the way it is now used for initial experiments with the SUV. I can drive though, yes, but a car is almost a meter high breaking edge runterzulenken is also quite new to me. So much fun for Raphael, who has traveled in his life before. is a first time, it just always.
After that I may then also the next take over 50 km road to the home, what causes immense fun, but also real concentration requires: everywhere potholes or gutters which one must give way, the road is narrow and constantly caresses motorcycles. In the first test the brakes skin me sort things equal times in the direction of the bushes. It all depends if you are not one hundred percent holding the steering wheel straight.
to make things that the Mercedes has a kind of bitchy gear. The first course seems somehow to have made from the dust, so I always have to start in the second. Because of this, I gee in Pobé again to Marc. city traffic without knowing the course - no thanks. From
Pobé we take the paved road and arrive an hour later without difficulty in Porto. First of showers, then a little shopping and then end your day with the other Weltwärts learning can be.
beautiful Over and over.

Wednesday, September 9, 2009

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The carburetor ...

... objectively considered a great invention. One could even say that he has revolutionized the automotive industry, because without him would be the gasoline engine still not running smoothly. see also environmentally, the carburetor to offer, but it ensures that the engine is no longer pure but a mixture of gasoline and air out of that burning, which reduces the Fuel consumption of the motor.
the worse when he's broken.

This beautiful Mercedes (I suspect a slightly older E 300), it had me go in the past but very pleased, whereupon I contacted the retailer's logical. The requested price of 1.2 million francs seemed not too high, above all Things because he is definitely still under the famous 1-million mark could push.
ideal conditions, one might think. All other tests which I had bestowed the vehicle - note the checklist two posts below - it was non-actionable and easily endure. I started to look at me, how many people can say the same to have bought the first car to a Mercedes E-Class? Then it
went out to start the engine. Petrol poured, battery installed, started. Sorry, no more than tired of coughing starter. Well, we think of a car that's been long since can ever cause problems, so a second Nix times. A mechanic called in (so far one of the few capable people I met here) recognizes the problem: the carburetor is clogged with bad, unfiltered fuel and should be cleaned.
As I said, so done, the device is thus expanded, taken apart and cleaned. Even for me, not at all interesting, because if you can make something like themselves in the future, you have already saved precious money. Also, I had never seen the inside of a carburetor.
Well, on with the text: the thing is re-fitted together and the next launch attempt.
The carburetor may well now be cleaned, but unfortunately he is not tight, because on the front of drooling out of gas. Quite a lot of fuel, which prevents effective again a start of the machine. Sure ... If the stock does not arrive where it is needed ...
The mechanic starts to tinker with. An original seal kit for the carburetor of the Mercedes on Ebay costs € 50. So here he would be prohibitive, first and second, out of print.
me the case is too stupid to have to work so at some point too, and anyway I've already captured a huge sunburn on his neck. The dealer agreed that he calls me, when everything is ready and working.
This morning the call came, so I came to the lunch break. Full of expectation and hope - yes, I like the car stop! Said carburetor was a piece of cardboard and some scharz, sticky stuff sealed. So far so good, you think to the spare parts is expensive and rare, when running, they should stop ...


It does not work. It is not easy. Although the carburetor is now intact, the engine is running but is still not around, comes back out of black and white smoke could say the same rock and a hard one ... Moreover, the idle speed set at such a low that the engine stops permanently. I have the dealer said that he should stop tinkering and sink the time and energy into it rather should look to me what's what.
also why the nice car because I do not even more want to expose torture of disabled people. One mechanic was, as already said, good. The rest of the people that are jumping around there - you'll forgive the expression - idiots. Even with me has already arrived, that it is a bad idea to unscrew the cold water inlet when the engine before it a quarter of an hour has passed. Instead, astonished faces that the hot water sprayed out above. Heroes. Also, the fact that when you start the engine, the gas pedal to the stop passes, mind you when you start, not after, makes me mad! Since I was eight, I know that you do not connect to the gas pedal when the engine is not running ... Told me my father. Is manure containing the freshly cleaned carb with so much fuel to flood that swells up and then out again - the engine starts so no more - in the carburetor again becomes rancid, whereupon the poor mechanic can clean it again. Beautiful vicious circle ...
Well, the goat is dead to me anyway, it was so beautiful and externally, it would include the inner values. I'm curious what the dealer has not so for me. What is clear is: The next time I turn the ignition key. No one else.

Monday, September 7, 2009

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weekend

... is great! Every Friday we would meet again on it again, because that is simply the time in which we live. During the week we are open every day 8:30 to 12:30 and 15:00 to 18:00 in project incidentally still need to buy, wash, cleaning, cooking, etc., then there is not much time to see what. All the better then the weekend, here an exemplary sequence, so it was this time:
Friday night for the first time, cooked on the menu are French fries, which are here carved with us hand-made from real potatoes and fried, then in palm oil. Made with love and you can taste it too! The rest of the evening will be a couple verchillt with us on the balcony. Not too long, not too hard, one needs an energy for what is to come. So about twelve times to bed.
Saturday will be rested for the first time, there is a good breakfast, with coffee and Pain Perdu (in German, the French toast n). Then a bit of tidying up, throw some stuff in the backpack, helmet under his arm and off you go. Short walk to the taxi stand on the high road, then from the taxi (again get the Yovo Square front with the driver at the window ;-)) and to get going Cotonou. We arrive in Dantokpa (the attentive reader will recall now, that was the huge market) and assume it's something that the sharks Zem Vive, which is the street where we lived the first week. Click here for the first time in the Maquis, what to eat. The first sobering: Here's just meat with Akassa. I do not eat meat, maybe not everything Akassa not even a little taste is also a meal have. So just a beer. After Raph has eaten, then we go over to the Maquis, where can I get for 300 francs but still my rice.
goes on in the supermarket on the shopping list is coffee, a short conversation with supermarket staff have the match available for free to Benin, Mali. Then the shock: I got my sunglasses are the only true round, mirrored sunglasses killer in the maquis on the table left! Back quickly, only to learn that some guy has been inserted, which we had previously annoyed already eating all the time. I compatible that I come back tomorrow and he has brought them back by then.
We incapacitated in terms of sunglasses until further notice , we go out to the beach and our host amine, Baden half-Egyptian with black-ADM-voice, which is driven by car from Karlsruhe here (there is a class Blog !), and is visiting his girlfriend, who works for the DED. The two live in a gigantic apartment with terrace right on the sea even greater - great!
On that very terrace we then spend the rest of the afternoon and the early part of the evening in the nice talk and music before it starts then: eat something first, then enjoy a short trip to Eric: Rasta before the Lord and owner of the most beautiful beach throughout Cotonou. Although rather outside, but amine Mercedes brings a reliable destination, through the whole Sahara has first been made, too.
Here tonight announced Full Moon Night, all night reggae. We are all three not in dancing mood, but the circumstances of the location advantage in so far perfect, as that we just set a beer on the beach and watch the sea. For the reggae beat chill out. About three we resolve to go home.
on the next morning I wake up at ten, the first of the three of us. The others can wait a little bit up, I take the opportunity to read a bit. When the others wake up then goes to breakfast. Due to the fact that the nearest bakery has been sold at 12:00 pm all croissants, decide we summarily for sandwich - Coated Arab Art Thin flat bread, with hummus, then lettuce, onions, tomatoes, cucumber, a bit of scrambled eggs, cheese and olives is clean, wrapped together, done the best breakfast in the world. This was great, the taste, and so well, that Amin Raph and I immediately want to convince them but to open a snack with something. Has he ever considered, let's see what comes of it. We while away the remaining
lunch on the terrace and we do against four on the way back. First with the sharks to Zem Vive, where I actually for a small amount of 200 francs get totally bent my sunglasses again. Great joy that I had namely secretly been written off. On the Zem Dantokpa back to the glasses will be addressed for now. Once there, we look for a taxi, no bus this time but a car, we still share with four other passengers and the driver. Still more comfortable than the bus, above all, faster.
In Porto-Novo then just buy some bread, give this evening is to Bruscetta. Onions and tomatoes are still there. We eat, we rely on the patio and still hear a little music. About eleven to bed, because tomorrow we have to work unfortunately. But only by the contrast you learn to appreciate the beautiful.

Friday, September 4, 2009

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eyes ...

... when buying a used car. Now the thing is slow
seriously here. As some may have already noticed - the rest of the readers stop now - Raphael and I are interested in for a car, specifically a Peugeot 504, to look like this:



A dealer with us around the corner the We have asked for such a vehicle, came a half hours later directly with two offers: one as indicated in top condition, ready to drive directly, but is in Cotonou and is the proud 900 000 francs expensive. The other is here in Porto Novo, is not in such good condition ("Il ya des trucs à faire), but costs only 500,000, so that still would have enough financial breathing room for repairs. Actually we wanted to look at the cars with Marc, a development worker from Cotonou, the good idea of the matter. Because of this, but the next day is not there, we can instruct us yesterday evening at the beer. Here she comes, the ultimate checklist for buying a used car by Marc B., and I make no claim to completeness.

  • the engine during cold starts and good? Make sure that the engine is not running before to get there. If this is the way: come back tomorrow!
  • sounds like the engine? He runs around and knocks him?
  • As seen from the exhaust? If white smoke from the exhaust Sun burns the engine water, a clear sign that the cylinder head gaskets no longer earn its name. If blue smoke from the exhaust of the engine burns too much oil, which is usually because the piston rings or valve stem seals no longer function properly.
  • How does the clutch?
  • switch through the gears can be good or jam the transmission somewhere?
  • check steering play!
  • Does the brake or builds occur only after some pressure on the pedal?
  • If the car especially when you see Staring him from behind or hang it to a page?
  • If (bearing from the front of the tires on the rear) tires on the track
  • If you already kneeling in front of the tires: Check the profile, new tires are expensive!
  • functioning of the shock absorbers still working properly? To test the rocks to the car a little. If it is fast catching it is all right, it swings more, what's wrong
  • If the wheel bearing play? This jack up the car and wiggle the wheels. Ideally, this is likely unachievable condition would be that there is nothing to shake.
  • Does the alternator? To test the best with the engine running turn the meter on hold times.
  • lighting check
No, I did not forget the rust, he is intentionally not on the list: First, one way or the other seems to be like now if the car soon breaks apart. If the can be as one to give all the rest and seek further immediately. Second, look to the local TÜV not then why should I bother so little rust spots? It threatens the aesthetics, that's right ... but no more.
Well, that goes, if you want to buy a car! Any interested party is advised of careful reading of the list of who wants it can also print out and hang over the bed to put under the pillow, learn by heart or if he just happened to complete something important.
Enjoy