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Cabernet Sauvignon
Today’s stage between Lusaka and Livingstone in Zambia,
488kms tarred roads and really good.
I felt we were a bit too fast on and off today. I sound
like mum, saying this, but I am afraid of wild animals that
from time to time cross the road. They are invisible in
the tall grass near the road. The Lundin brothers said there
were catch fences, so no worries. We stopped to pee and
I saw the fence, barbed wire 80cms high, put up by a farmer
some time in the past...
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I have always suspected Lukas of being hen-pecked. On the outside
he always appears to be hard and without compromises, but today I
saw another side. We looked at the Victoria Falls as he suddenly took
an interest in my camera. I became suspicious and it turned out that
some 15 of his female managers had shown him the whole hand and demanded
a photo of me. Talk about being pushed around.
Victoria Falls are really impressive, a mile wide and a height of
nearly 100 metres. To get it all in one photo is difficult, but standing
there watching it in the rain season is an impressive show.
The humidity around the falls is high, large parts of the area around
are constantly rained on.
We Europeans are an odd lot. Livingstone “discovered”
the falls some time around 1850. How he “discovered” it?
He heard locals talk about it. What about the locals, who for generations
have lived near it? It is embarassing to be a white European and see
the statue that Zambian government has erected next to the falls.
Finally a few lines to my wife Eva. I am really fighting to learn
to drink wine, like you always tell me to. I had the same problems
learning to take snuff when I was 14, strange, when you think of it.
I manage really well now, mixing it with water, liked Fabrizio Meoni
used to do. Dinner here in the Zambezi Sun was a total experience
in sight and taste, almost the same as eating moose you have brought
home yourself, at a table you have made yourself, to put it in perspective.
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Performance Riding
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Per-Gunnar
Lundmark
Fjällbonäs 15
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Per-Gunnar
Lundmark
Eva.PG.Lundmark@swipnet.se
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2006-02-08
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