Returning Peugot, going surfing

Day: 05
Location: Dakar, Senegal
Weather: perfect
Kilometers: 100
Hours: 4
Health: perfect
Accomodation: Hotel du Marche
Morale: 7
Total spend: 42K CFA

AW: The traffic back to Dakar was brutal, but we made it back to the consulate only 2 hours behind schedule. Visas for Guinea bissau were all in order for 20K CFA each. We then dropped them at the embassy of Guineau and drove back to Yoff.

We rented surfboards for a couple hours and went to la Plage de Yoff. Nice and sandy, but the waves were chop - combined with our lack of skill, very little real surfing was done despite a lot of paddling. The beach was closer to a public gym than to a relaxation spot. We saw people doing pushups, squats, some intense interval training, and longer runs, a few wild soccer games, and of course hassling for sport.

We returned the car - the owner complained about a dent (must have been the kids from yesterday) and the lack of petrol (our own idea of symmetry), but didn't seem to think anything of the leaking radiator hose that we had a local mechanic seal for 1K CFA.

We did a controlled experiment for dinner. Guillaume drank the table water (expected to be filtered) while I ate the rubbery mutton stuff. Neither of us got sick, but we both overpaid.

To bed early, need to regroup tomorrow, do some laundry, finish the visas, and rest.

GB: 5eme jour maintenant et tout va tjrs bien. Hier on a rendu la Peugeot 305 qu'on avait louee , et ce avec seulement une legere bosse a l'arriere qui n'a pas eu l'air de deranger le loueur (soit dit en passant un loueur assez jungle quand meme...). La bosse etait d'ailleurs le resultat d'un ensablement malvenu pendant le trajet Lac Rose-Dakar. Un des gamins qui nous a permis d'en sortir a du faire un exces de zele.

Au final apres 2 jours de conduite il semble clair qu'une Peugeot 305 annee modele 1987, avec 20 ans d'age dont au moins 11 en Afrique, ne suffira pas pour descendre en Casamance. Les negociations pour trouver un 4x4 a nos conditions se poursuivent, j'ai maintenant plus de Senegalais dans le repertoire de mon telephone que du reste du monde...