Daily routine on the bus

The daily schedule on the Ikarus is organized around the long distances and the extreme weather conditions. In the mornings usually one of the drivers and Aravind wake up to start the engine. From a distance it seems like something is burning. Let’s go, off we go. After all this I usually get out of bed and pour some pálinka. In the mornings it’s around 15 degrees in the back, we need the warming up drink. And the doctor said as well that we need disinfection. The pálinka smell wakes up Béla, Attila and Tamás. Bela brought 10 liters – great man! – he said that this much of pálinka will last for sure till the end. After Tatooine there’s hardly any in the bottle…

After the pálinka…Kriszti wakes up and shouts at us why we didn’t pour her. Another round, fat burns, legs and arms warm is, microbes dying. No worries, the drivers never drink. After pálinka we can do with some breakfast, on the bus. After breakfast it’s usually pretty warm already, so Attila, Kriszti and Tamás continues with wine. The rest doesn’t drink. Before midday we eat the kilometers until lunchtime. Lunchtime is usually 1,5 hours. Disinfecting follows. Eating kilometers again in the afternoon, by this time everyone is sick of the heat. Everyone’s sneezing, coughing and croaking of the fine dust. Sometime in the evening or in the night we reach our destination. In Africa every single day someone wanted to fly bak home immediately. But the tension settles quickly, maybe because in 1 hour it becomes very chilly, everyone tries to go to sleep and not to freeze. Some hours of sleep in the diesel smell, and in the morning, the nice wake up tune of the Ikarus’s engine again…