Montag, 21. Dezember 2009

18. 12. Bamako chillout



Standard African breakfast: Nescafé, milk powder, Belgium cheese ("La vache qui rie"), and a baguette. Then leaving the nice place for a cheaper one: Youth hostel, dirty, loud, in the centre of Bamako. At least 3 bands rehearsing somewhere in the area all day. Skinny, tall men in yellow shirts playing basket ball and asking for “cadeaus” when you want to take a photo. So no photo. I went to feed the blog in air conditioned, spacey internet place, while Igor and Stefan finally started to paint our Steyr with the sponsored colors. I joined them between the rhythms of basket ball and drumming, people dropped by all day laughing at us, taking photos with their mobile phones, telling where to put more color, and at the end applauding: we had a brand new car, finally OUR Steyr, in shiny white, orange and chocolate, laughing at us. Our guide from yesterday appeared and promised to bring us to the Bamako dump site next day. He introduced himself as ”Momo le Magnifique”, and he would bring us everywhere we want: “Welcome to Bamako, welcome to Mali”.

2 Kommentare:

  1. Wow, der Steyr ist ja nicht wieder zu erkennen! Wunderschön!!!!!

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  2. ja, er ist gleich viel, viel freundlicher, lacht die ganze zeit und die welt lacht zurück!

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