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Running Report 3
Mozambique:
Here we are on the Indian Ocean sipping a beer under the belting sun, relaxing under a palm tree, waiting now for over an hour for a Caesar�s Salad so if its quick service you appreciate most don�t bother with the old Colonial Polana Hotel in Maputo. It�s the most luxurious place in town, wonderful big pillows, super linen sheets, and antique ambience, where time stands still�it certainly does in the kitchen.
We are currently missing Detlef Heyer whose vintage Mercedes had piston trouble in Francistown a day or so ago in Botswana. He has opted for a rental car and will follow on but the terms of hire were such that after crossing Crocodile Bridge today he reached the border of Mozambique and could go no further.
Everyone else is going great guns. The heat was almost up to the 100 degrees (old money) that we first experienced in Tanzania and its been a blistering day as we wrestled with chaotic border officialdom.
The roads have been great so far, and the last two days were spent on graded gravel in the Kruger national park, perhaps the best Safari camp so far, where we glimpsed more lions, more elephants, more leopard, loads of impala crossing the road in front of us, lots of Zebra, and, this is a first, several rhino.
The Kruger certainly impresses, and this was two of the very best of days you could possibly wish for. Time off, lazing around sort of days (except for Peter and Betty Banham and Andy Inskip, but by lunchtime they were so short of something to do they were seen wandering off to the pool).
The Saabs are still going well, the Rolls Royce continues to impress � it�s 1913, no front brakes, but was clocked by a policeman doing 65 in a 60 limit but didn�t bother to stop�when you�ve no front brakes you don�t waste energy on speeding tickets, frankly its too hot for arguments.
Results: Here is an Index of Performance. We have had a Medal Section, and the results of this 12kms of gravel fun were as follows:
1st classic: Paul and Sandra Merryweather, Mercedes 230SL; 2nd, Flying Finns Martti and Pirkko Kiikka in another 230SL, and third was the Jaguar Mk2 of Ralph Auchincloss and Hilary Cheese. First in the Vintageant Category were David and Sadie Williams in the green Chevy Fangio Coupe, 2nd, Roger and Gillian Goodwin in the 8-litre Bentley, 3rd Catherine d�Andrimont and Xavier del Marmol in a Chevy Fangio cabrio. The Chevys went well on this one but there are a few more en route to Rourkes Drift.
Must go � the beer is getting warm.
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