42 nautical miles
\nThe last meal at Eden Rock with Hassna and Danz. Guillaumette was waiting with open arms as soon as we arrived in Majunga. This evening, once again she took the time to celebrate our meeting and Serge\u2019s start, with a bottle of South African champagne. It was our final drink together and very pleasant. Guillaumette has pep and an energy which is catching. We are sorry not to have met our hosts, whom we saw photos this evening. To be welcomed so warmly by someone you don\u2019t even know is very touching.
\nSince March 19th Danz has made a huge contribution to the \u00ab World tour of Madagascar \u00bb (he never does anything half way). He is beginning to relax and by 9 PM everyone was in bed. Hassina is ready for a new start on Saturday morning.
\n4H00 it\u2019s time to rise. A quick glance at the website: good heading, I\u2019m relieved and I leave Majunga rather reassured.
\n5H00: we head to the center of Majunga
\n5H30: We have a meeting with \u201cFirst Class\u201d transportation, we connect to website
\n5H50: Communication from Serge \u2013 \u00ab I rowed until 21H00 yesterday, I ate well, it\u2019s rocky, I\u2019m looking for ???? \u00bb. I asked him to repeat and after three tries I still don\u2019t understand. Too bad, he will find whatever it is on his own! We agreed to talk again at 18H15 (Malagasy time which he will keep until he reaches Mozambique). In any case, he lives with the daylight, a common point with running, where he gets up at sunrise and goes to bed at sundown. While we camped we were in bed every evening at 18H30.
\n6 H00: Departure for Tana, which takes me farther from Serge and it was with a twinge of sorrow that I thought about a camp, about sitting down for a refueling or a sunset. Ren\u00e9 keeps his diary up to date and I wonder how he can write in a vehicle that bumps and jolts between a road under repair, pot holes and hairpin curves. It\u2019s almost like being in an amusement park.
\nHassina and Danz leave with the truck and trailer in the direction of Tana as well but in 2 stages. They will arrive in the capital tomorrow. I have trouble realizing that we are leaving now. Time never stands still and it\u2019s a shame.<\/p>\n
17H30: Arrival in Tana, city center, to find the same dense traffic which we had forgotten. We made only one stop, for an hour, and always with the same driver.
\nMomo and Bob were waiting for us. We went to Olivier and Nathalie\u2019s Grill du Rouva, where we were again welcomed with open arms.
\n18H15: A quick call from Serge \u2013 All is well, slightly nauseous because of heavy seas. He is reassured because he is 30 miles from the coast but he is not very confident about his heading. I have to tell you that Serge did not watch the football game on Tuesday evening and he left Wednesday without asking about the score \u2013 in his bubble?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
42 nautical miles The last meal at Eden Rock with Hassna and Danz. Guillaumette was waiting with open arms as soon as we arrived in Majunga. This evening, once again she took the time to celebrate our meeting and Serge\u2019s start, with a bottle of South African champagne. It was our final drink together and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"\n