Happy New Year!

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Hello everyone… hope you’ve all had fun over Christmas, yes we’re still alive, still in Niamey and my broken arm is still encased in plaster. The insurance company are helping us to keep the bank manager happy until I am fit to ride again. If all goes well I will be out of plaster on the 11th and working hard to get my arm back to strength.

Our ‘friendly’ insurers are helping us stay out here until the 21st, at least they pay for accomodation, but every little helps. We have been close to insanity, unexpected confinement after months of travelling is difficult to deal with! We met a couple of other bikers through www.horizonsunlimited.com (thanks Tim C!) who joined us for Christmas along with a Brit couple hooning across Africa in an old Landcruiser.

For Christmas day we all had tasty barbecue, plenty of booze and those that had fully working limbs were thrown in the pool, including Ester the Swiss girl who we’d only just met.

Thanks to Jason for buying the water pistols that started the pool dunking, Karin for drinking the gin, Orrin for throwing everyone in the pool and Torsten for letting us watch movies on his laptop… hope you all have a safe journey.

There’s not much else to report, next time we’re here we will fill in the gap between Burkina Faso and me crashing in Niger, hopefully with some more pictures (cybercafes here give out Prozac to keep you smiling while you wait).

Happy New Year to all our families, friends, like-minded fools we’ve met on the road and anyone else that ends up reading this. Hope 2008 is good to you.

Dan and Linz

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