Those things that happen, they say… well with me they happen too far often! I returned from Sao Tome and Principe (West Africa); on the 27th of March (Thursday). By Friday (the 28th) I was involved in a car crash. A lady thought it was a good idea to reverse her car in the middle of the road when I was driving at 90km/h 30 meters from her, I had to get off road, tail-slide, got back on the road fully uncontrolled, banged on a back bumper from a van coming on the opposite direction and stopped a few centimetres from the road rails. Outcome? A broken light and some metal damage, very little. However a 4×4 that was behind me took most of the front part of her car. Fortunately no one got hurt!
Not happy with that, Saturday, I was coming from a night in Bar do Bruno, really wrecked and tired, fell asleep on the wheel and smashed my car against a house on a bend on my way home. Result? Car unrecoverable!
Now I’m on foot and riding my bike very often (good to diminish my carbon footprint!). However, by the end of the month I’ll get back on sending carbon to the atmosphere with a 22 year old Volkswagen Golf, an old-school retro model. I know, it pollutes more than the new engines and so on, but is the only thing I can afford at the moment. What I can say is that I’m cooking some projects to compensate this, and I’ll post some stuff soon enough :-)