2014-05-29

Angola is an interesting place, has many natural beautiful spots but also still has a lot of povertry brought by the Soviet-oriented civil war after the decolonization. I considered a bit odd to see some Brazilian-assembled Mitsubishi pickups here, recognised by their distinctive round headlights. What caught my attention the most was a fiberglass replica of the Jeep Wrangler, known as Troller and fitted with the engine from a South-American version of the Ford Ranger.

2014-05-08

After the ship got unloaded I'll get a meal before I go to Africa one more time. Today's menu has some breaded fillets of random small fish caught by me in the middle of the Atlantic, a cup of cassava flour seasoned with onion, parsley, pepper and then pan-fried with a bit of oil (that's a Brazilian side dish, they call it farofa there), a slice of fresh pineapple, 3 deep-fried sliced bananas, 2 cups of rice and a cup of corn, with orange juice. All the waste cooking vegetable oil and animal-sourced baking greases from the ship will be turned into biofuels.

On a sidenote, I had the chance to collect a good amount of orange skin oil, which has a good performance as a natural ignition improver to the usage of ethanol into compression-ignition engines.