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7.000 kilometers to Jahaly Aid Convoy 2009 Germany - The Gambia
A Video Log
narrated by Ulfert Engelkes & Jan Kretschmer
Our Aid Tour 2009 starts in front of the city hall of Hattingen/Germany.
It is raining and one oil filter is already spoiled.
After a delay of 30 minutes we go on the road for our 7.000 kilometers journey
We are a group of 8 cars and 19 drivers After passing Cologne, we turn right
and than straight ahead.
First stop to take fuel near Paris/France - after 500 kilometers.
Here we have 156 and 253 – 400 Euro in total for buying diesel.
We calculatet 6 to 7.000 Euro for diesel. Whether it will be enough – lets see.
Still 2.000 kilometers to go for the ferry to Morocco.
Driving during the night: no problem for the convoy
There s only few traffic on the highways.
Its six o clock, Saturday morning. We made more than 1000 kilometers now.
We are south of Bordeaux/France and we want to get to Alegeciras/southern Spain
without major rests to reach our ferry at Sunday morning. We 19 drivers now are
looking forward to open the kitchen car two hours from now to have breakfast.
Since Paris we don´t have to pay toll anymore, everybody supports our
activities in The Gambia.
We are on schedule. We are looking forward to to reach Africa. So we thought,
but Sunday morning – 7 o´clock – we see the first car breaking down.