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Day 4: Amboseli Ol Tukai to Karen, 19 February 2020
Photos: gerardbrown.co.uk
Stephen and Jenny Verrall, 1965 Porsche 911
homerun straight to the suburb of Karen, on the outskirts
of Nairobi, and another very well appointed Hemingway’s.
There were a few of the rally who had some minor troubles
along the road today. Dieter and Hildegard Baumhäeckel’s
Volvo suffered a suspension collapse and needed a tow to
get them into the night halt. The FJ40 Land Cruiser of Bernd
and Christiane Dannenmaier suffered alternator problems
slightly delaying them over the course of the day.
Charles Stuart-Menteth and Michael Timmis were more
unlucky, once again finding themselves by the side of the
road. They needed a new alternator fitting. Luckily they had
one to hand, unluckily this one was faulty as well. Andy
Inskip and Malcolm Destro sat beside the old Vauxhall
whilst they waited for a tow truck to bring them into town
causing them to be a few minutes late for dinner.
Tomorrow is a rest day and, it’s hard to think of a more
splendid setting to have it. Hemingway’s Nairobi could
possibly be even a little more grand than the Hemingway’s
we left almost one week ago. We’ve come along way since
then but there’s plenty more to look forward to.
Given where we’ve been, there’s likely be some fettling
and fixing tomorrow but there will also be some pampering
And, perhaps a visit to the orphan elephant sanctuary
might just be squeezed in where, we were assured, there
won’t be a dry eye in the house.
Edmund Peel and Sara MacDonald, Porsche 911 repair
Italians Enrico Paggi and Federica Mascetti, with 1971 Fiat 124 Spider
Gerardus Mercator, Dispatch reporter
Denis and Jill Wilson, 1969 Rover P5B
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