Posts From Senegal

Today we had a bus tour of the city of Dakar, a place made famous in western countries, by the Paris-Dakar rally. But sadly for a petrol head like myself we saw almost nothing that reflected the days of the rally. Why the "almost" ? Like all the previous places we have visited on this trip Dakar has uncountable hordes of motorcycles but all with small engines and designed as city transport. But in Dakar I caught glimpses of a small number of high powered rally style bikes, the rider of one of these even pulled a wheelie in a crowded street while crossing an intersection; just for the benefit of us tourists you understand.

Today was supposed to be a celebration of my 77th birthday, but alas, I ate something at lunch so spent the afternoon in bed trying to recover. Hence I did not really appreciate the nice chocolate birthday cake the ships galley provided and the celebratory dinner that Nina had arranged was cancelled.