Manon Ossevoort is actually not the kind of person you would normally connect with old cars: the theater's program was not all that long behind him, as an actress and author rather than lovers of the arts and technology oily engines and tractors do not really know much about. But appearances are deceptive: The young Dutch woman is just the heart of Africa on the road - with a green Deutz D6806, built in 1976th And about a half years already. (- To be reminded by e mail
) "tractor world" is regularly in the future Manon ride report.
they started in mid-June 2005 in the Netherlands. About France's was the Balkans. Then the ferry to Egypt and the Sudan and Ethiopia to the south. After a lengthy stop-over in Nairobi (Kenya) where the tractor was again checked through thoroughly, it is now back on the road. Wherever you go: The dog named Kos and a Play. For the idea for this journey of the young author was writing: As a theater-maker, I had the idea for the trip of a little girl ens on a tractor. A trip to the end of the world and back. But where is the end of the world? If I were a child I would say: The South Pole. As adults, I say: The most terrible war-shaken e country I can think of. Both parts - the child and adult - said we want to go. So I thought: OK, then we do it easy.
The Deutz near the Pyramids. The tractor was overhauled at the cost of Same Deutz-Fahr before you travel.
Throughout their journey is Manon ideas - sometimes before thousands of spectators - and raises funds for a handful of aid projects they support with their project.
A few more months, then the Cape of Good Hope is reached. Then dog costs remain. Tractor driver and then go on board an icebreaker, the South Pole.
The tractor itself has a checkered history. In an e-mail from Africa "global tug of writes Manon
the tractor I got originally sponsored by a farm equipment dealer in my home village. This was for my "test drive" to Paris, where I wanted to drink a cup of coffee under the Eiffel Tower. I told the man right from my great Southern-plan and I think he is smiling in the total here because he thought it was a good joke. He then gave me a tractor which he knew he could make a trip like this. This was confirmed to me on the trip the way many farmers and farm equipment dealers. Everyone knows and told me that would go as a German tractor of the old school never broken. However, I have no one to tell that I travel the slowest tractor in the world would - but he broke me is gone, in fact, never. Otherwise I do not know much about its history. Before I got him he was needed only as Zufahrzeug for the annual carnival parade. Beverage cans in the tank and the tractor had been decorated as a giant duck. Later I found out that my tractor of a type which was only built in 1976 and was later modified. In Belgium, they told me that I have square cylinder heads! "
The pleasures of civilization (a cafe with Internet access, for example), there's rarely on the trip through Africa.
- Manon Ossevoort website (Dutch, English and French): http://www.tractortractor.org/
- War Child ( http://www. warchild.org / ) charity for children in war zones for their performances in Manon donations collected
- Wanderings Blog: Here I learned about the project. Thanks to nib!
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