..it finally happened

at the weekend we decided to borrow the embassy's old pick up for two reasons, firstly as we wanted to drop the Suzuki off for a full service, and secondly so we could go round on our Kigali safari as we did at the beginning of our posting without my having heart failure at every pothole.

We had just finished a slightly off piste route, and were in Kanobe near the airport when we heard a strange whooshing sound - I thought it perhaps was a helicopter, but no we had a completely flat blown tyre.

Some poking round in the back of the pickup revealed a missing bit for the jack, no warning triangle (legally obliged) ditto fire extinguisher. So, we called the embassy driver to come and help us. Releasing the spare tyre from under the pickup required a complicated meccano type arrangement which was poked in a small hole above the numberplate.

It was quite a relief that several passing cars stopped to see if they could offer any help.


so this is Vincent helping us out. I took more photos which have somehow been gremlinned - oh well.

This is the outcome I expected on our many off road drives, so I was kind of relieved that it finally happened, and when it did we were on tarmac in a recognisable place.