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Hello,
Its Eastern Sunday and I write this from the terrace of the
GMs lodge in Gisenyi on the Lake Kivu.
This is really Paradise, the quietness, its nature, the birds , absolutely fantastic
and I enjoy every moment of it.
I am very thankfull
to those of the brewery that made it possible for me.
Yesterday, Saturday I visited the brewery here and it
recalled many memories from the time in 1991 that I worked there. Since than I visited he brewery once a year
when I was the Accountmanager of the region.
Of course, some things have changed but not too many since
competition is there now and margins are smaller than before.
Riding over these roads is a treat. From Kigali I had 155 km through the
mountains with continuous bends and hairpins.
Fantastic for a bike rider. This
is the ultimate. No potholes and hardly
any traffic.
The scenery is often breathtaking with the high hills and very
deep valleys, banana and tea plantations.
It is all so perfect without the usual rubbish ,dirt and
plastic that one meets in the other countries, here none of it. Even the villages and cities are clean like
it must be.
Plastic bags are forbidden since a few years and it seems to
help. Kenia has just started the ban.
There is not much to report since all goes smooth and I
enjoy doing nothing.
There is a new road to Kibuye , a 85 km south from here
along the Lake and so tomorrow I will do a tour to there. Seems a perfect road.
When I worked here we
went there with the brewery boat to waterrski in the bay of Kibuye.
Yesterday I cleaned my airfilter for the first time since
Cairo and that was very neccessary. The
desert sand from Egypt and Sudan was there , fieis and other debris. I should have cleaned it earlier but was too lazy
.
Fortunately I installed another washable type, a K&N
filter. Expensive but worth the
investment since I did not spot that anything had leaked into the engine.
I cleaned it all out and washed the filter with Dreft, dieid
it and resprayed it with a special sealant
that I brought along.
I leave here on Tuesday 3rd April and will park the bike at
the TD s house in Kigali and go from there to the airport and head for home
. Will return on the 7th of May and hope
the rains will have reduced so to face the bad stretch of road again going to
Dodoma in Tanzania .
From there it will be Zambia, Botwana and finally South
Africa. Wiil , possibly, be in SA around 20th of
May. Goes all too fast.
Because everything is so good and perfect here I have nothing further to
report and will be back again around the 7th May. Will let you know by mail so you can pick up
reading again.
Cheers, Paul.
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