That old style Delica reminds me of a trip into the vast wilderness of Mongolia and being wrapped up in a sweaty foetal position on the vast grassy expanses with an extremely dodgy tummy whilst the Delica was repaired… due to my semi delirious state, I can’t quite remember the nature of the mechanical complaint.
The trip came about after some Swedish girls who were staying in the same hostel as me were invited on an adventure by some Mongolian dudes who dealt in birds of prey and they in turn invited me along to keep them safe.
After a few rituals with vodka and gifting a 20kg sack of rice, a family living in a ger in the middle of nowhere took us in. The man of the tent then went about arranging dinner; a freshly slaughtered sheep. I’ll always remember the warmth that radiated out as he sliced it’s stomach open whilst I held the still twitching front legs (it was already dead, but the nerves were still doing their thang) he then deftly butchered it on the floor of the tent, pulling out lungs, kidneys and all sorts of stomach gubbins, all steaming, dividing them between bowls and buckets, depending on how useful they were.
All the while, the Swedish girls looked on aghast… being vegetarians, they were preparing their own meal on a camping stove a couple of feet away!!
What with there not being a whole lot to do, the next day I went for a walk and climbed a bloody great mountain… being as I was gone for about 7 hours, when I was decending into the foothills, I found there was a search party out for me on horseback; they thought I’d been attacked by wolves!!
I’ve probably got a pic of me being ill by the Delica somewhere, but for some reason, I doubt that’s hosted online…
as consolation, here’s a pic of an open air pool table next to a big wheel:
There was also a sweet-ass pedal monorail thingy in the same park, but being as it was the days before digital photography was commonplace, I didn’t manage to get a good pic.