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18 december 2006 | Door: Jeroen

More chit chat

I keep forgetting to give you the latest news on Grace. First Mike informed me that she was feeling much better and even had found a job. Not in a hairsalon, something else but I did not understand as what. The cell phone lines to Kenya usually are ...

Dar es Salaam - Tanzania

18 december 2006 | Door: Jeroen

Black magic woman

Very hard to write these days! During good moments no time, during the bad moments I've written many unprintable versions. So just some chit-chat. My guesthouse is in Sinza, just off Shekilango road. The nickname for that area is the Gaza strip, ...

Dar es Salaam - Tanzania

1 december 2006 | Door: Jeroen

Lazy days

Janeth and I have been to Bagamoyo. Finally something touristic again. It's one of the oldest trade centers on the East African coast. The Arabs arrived here in the 13th century as they moved south along the coast to spread the Islam. The original ...

Dar es Salaam - Tanzania

25 november 2006 | Door: Jeroen

Let it be

And still things keep happening. Some weird coincidences... again. I really wish that would end one day. This book I'm reading is more and more to the point or better: to the moment for me. It makes me love Grace deeper, or more accurate: it ...

Dar es Salaam - Tanzania

16 november 2006 | Door: Jeroen

Here I go again...

November 15th Today I finished painting class 4. A yellow classroom. Tomorrow class 5, a straightforward kind of green. Otherwise things are kind of the same. Staying in the same guesthouse for more than a week now. But still not much rest, ...

Dar es Salaam - Tanzania

11 november 2006 | Door: Jeroen

People talking, but they don't know...

Wedneysday, November 8th Pfff, I'm drunk! And alone. I miss her already. Putting Grace on the bus was the hardest thing. Even harder than leaving my son at Schiphol. He is safe with his mother. I love him and he loves me, I miss him and he misses ...

Dar es Salaam - Tanzania

6 november 2006 | Door: Jeroen

Dar es Salaam

Strangest city I've ever been in. Roads and traffic are unbelievable and incomprehensible. It rains every day, mud and water everywhere. The power is down also every day, most of the day. And running water is off too mostly. And the people are not ...

Dar es Salaam - Tanzania

2 november 2006 | Door: Jeroen

Grace

Dar es Salaam, November 1st I did go back to find her. I'd walked past the Midnight hotel a few times before I gathered enough courage to go near. Three of her colleagues were sitting outside. They didn't know where she was, but could tell me ...

Dar es Salaam - Tanzania

24 oktober 2006 | Door: Jeroen

Mombasa blues

The secret of happiness is to learn to want what you already have. And so a sure way to feel miserable is to long for things you can't have. I feel miserable. Yesterday I hoped to see a girl that I met the day before and invited to go swimming. ...

Mombassa - Kenia

21 oktober 2006 | Door: Jeroen

Pools of sorrow, waves of joy...

Are drifting through my opened mind, Possesing and caressing me. Nairobi, 20th october 2006 Two months on the road today. It's much easier than I expected. Sure there are tough moments, minutes or hours, never a whole day. And the beauty I ...

Nairobi - Kenia

15 oktober 2006 | Door: Jeroen

Dreams...

The last evening at Lake Tana Dani and I start boozing. With a couple of ouzo's we talk about our dreams and the important things in life. Dani tells me about a book he read, "Beach of Dreams". I will ask Fanny to lend it to me. We decide to not ...

Addis Abeba - Ethiopië

10 oktober 2006 | Door: Jeroen

Bahir Dar, Lake Tana

Oktober 10th This is paradise. Our camping/hotel is right at the lake. We are here for two full days. Today we made a bicycle trip to Haile Selassi's palace. It's closed for public and we don't see the palace (there is a guard with a gun who ...

Bahir Dar - Ethiopië

4 oktober 2006 | Door: Jeroen

Karima to Khartoum

After the trip in the open pick up through the desert I felt exhausted. I had 'ful' (a dish with beans) for dinner and went to bed right after. Next day I visited Jebel Berkal, the holy mountain. Eight people were sitting in the shade, five of them ...

Khartoem - Soedan

3 oktober 2006 | Door: Jeroen

Hitching a ride...

With Dani, Michi, Fanny and Uschi I came to Gondar. A long ride through a greener and greener countryside. Asphalt with big holes or gravel roads. Ethiopia is beautiful. The rain season has just ended and there are birds, flowers and butterflies ...

Gondar - Ethiopië

28 september 2006 | Door: Jeroen

Through the desert!

From Wadi Halfa to Karima The Bradt travel guide to Sudan writes: Wadi Halfa can feel like the end of the world. Naturally I decide to stay one night. The hotel is a real 'lokanda', four beds to a room, communal 'hole in the ground' toilets and ...

Karīma - Soedan

27 september 2006 | Door: Jeroen

The journey begins...

It takes seven hours to load the ship. Truckloads full of sacks and boxes are unloaded by hand and then brought into the ship. And everything as well as all the people with their luggage pass through the same narrow passway across another ship. ...

Khartoem - Soedan

15 september 2006 | Door: Jeroen

Of things you shouldn't do

You shouldn't swim in the Nile. Really. It's supposed to be infected with Bilharzia. Captain Ziggy has talked me into a sunset felucca trip to the first cataract. For a special price, not a tourist price. After all we are friends now, since the trip ...

Aswan - Egypte

14 september 2006 | Door: Jeroen

There's no escaping it

Luxor 13th september 2006 Today I did Luxor's west bank. By bicycle again. Valley of the Kings, Valley of the Queens, Hatshepsut's temple and Medinat Habu (yes that's the one where they are counting their enemies cut-off hands and penisses). I ...

Luxor - Egypte

5 september 2006 | Door: Jeroen

Damn those dams!

Today was the best day sofar! And it didn't even involve a woman. Just one man, the sun and a bicycle. I rented a bike to make a tour across both Aswan dams. The old one and the high one. After some kilometers I decided to ask directions. First I ...

Aswan - Egypte

4 september 2006 | Door: Jeroen

Cairo, 29-08 / 02-09

Back in Cairo. This morning, still in Alex, I met an American who actually ran away from Cairo. He was so fed up with the crowds, the noise and the constant hassles, that he got out of the city and went to Siwa, an oasis near Libya. Not me.... I'm ...

Caïro - Egypte

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More chit chat

Black magic woman

Lazy days

Let it be

Here I go again...

People talking, but they don't know...

Dar es Salaam

Grace

Mombasa blues

Pools of sorrow, waves of joy...

Dreams...

Bahir Dar, Lake Tana

Karima to Khartoum

Hitching a ride...

Through the desert!

The journey begins...

Of things you shouldn't do

There's no escaping it

Damn those dams!

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