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Traveling Off the Beaten Path/ Watching my bank account bleed dry
Blog: Nilikuta Shani - 18 December 2009
I have to confess that I really haven’t really traveled off the beaten path before I began this yearlong adventure. When I was living in England I was able to travel a bit through Europe, but I never considered those trips the sort that required any real forethought—planning in advance consisted of finding my passport [...]
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A quick glimpse of Nairobi nightlife
Blog: Kampala Days (Diary of a Mzungu) - 29 November 2009
"Ladies and gentlemen, please take your seats as we approach Nairobi, Jomo Kenyatta airport."I'm slightly apprehensive leaving Uganda as I leave behind the familiarity of the Luganda greetings that I've been having such fun with over the last nine months. I feel like an outsider again. Will everyone speak English?
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Prizes for my "indigenous mix"
Blog: Kampala Days (Diary of a Mzungu) - 21 November 2009
From the gutter to the Kabira Club, what a true star my mutt Baldrick is and a fantastic advert for the work of the Uganda Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Found as a pup drowning in a ditch, Baldrick Superdog came First in the Dog with the Waggiest Tail competition and ended up coming third overall on the day! Hilarious.
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Rafting on the Nile/ Team Uganda planning dinner
Blog: Nilikuta Shani - 20 November 2009
A few months ago I was having brunch with some friends at a restaurant in Melrose Arch (a shopping mall—surprise) when we started talking about our plans for New Years. At the time, my plans were to spend a week with S and his friends in Mozambique. As we got around the table the spotlight [...]
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How d'you catch a gecko?
Blog: Kampala Days (Diary of a Mzungu) - 10 November 2009
The gecko living in my bathroom is getting fatter and fatter by the day, my nice white walls peppered with little black droppings. There's no way he'll ever get back out through the thin gap by the windowframe.I rarely see more than a flash of him as he darts behind the cistern but the evidence is there. I'm happy to accommodate anyone who likes eating mosquitoes but am getting tired of his idea of home decoration.Enough already!
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Couchsurfing Uganda: A Mzungu in the Midst (Part 2)
Blog: GoBackpacking - 29 October 2009
Post by new contributor Lindsay Clark of Nomadderwhere. The first mission of the day was to make it to the city, as the locals do, wandering up weaving lames and jumping garbage heaps until Entebbe road appeared, in all its smoggy splendor. On the way, I began to re-experience the wonder of being a walking [...]Buy travel insurance from Worldnomads.com (Lonely Planet's preferred carrier)
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Couchsurfing Uganda: A Mzungu in the Midst
Blog: GoBackpacking - 28 October 2009
...my drive from the airport got me closer to the real Uganda...Buy travel insurance from Worldnomads.com (Lonely Planet's preferred carrier)
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Count yourself lucky
Blog: Kampala Days (Diary of a Mzungu) - 24 October 2009
This week we’ve been busy: straining to glimpse African Presidents flying overhead in their Chinooks and swerving off the road as the Presidential motorcades plough past, to and from the African Union meetings being held in Kampala. It makes me sick to think I might be breathing the same air as Robert Mugabe.
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If You Speak Dutch, Go Read Another Blog
Blog: No Hurry Curry - 9 October 2009
9/23/09: Lake Bunyonyi, Uganda to Kampala, Uganda The first two weeks of our tour will literally get us nowhere. Today we will begin our journey back to where we started: Nairobi, Kenya. Including today, we will do three all-day drives over the beyond bumpy Ugandan and Kenyan roads. Each morning we will wake up just after [...]
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Give Me Banana!
Blog: No Hurry Curry - 8 October 2009
9/22/09: Lake Bunyonyi, Uganda A few of the members in our tour group decided to go on a “village walk” today. There have been village walks offered at a few of the places we’ve stayed at – you get a tour of the village, visiting one or two homes and generally seeing how the people there [...]
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Cholera outbreak in Nam'
Blog: Kampala Days (Diary of a Mzungu) - 8 October 2009
It’s been raining heavily all day.The gutter is falling off the front of the house (not that the landlord cares) and Eva has a poloneck jumper on “It’s so COLD!” she says, while I sit here in the same light clothes and sandals I always wear.Rain here is both a blessing and a curse.Uganda is a fantastically green and lush country. The two rainy seasons mean that many people (98% of the country are subsistence farmers) can plant and harvest twice a year.
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Be Prepared to Wait 15 Minutes or the Rest of Your Life
Blog: No Hurry Curry - 7 October 2009
9/21/09: Lake Bunyonyi, Uganda Sometimes it’s good to take a day off. Today we did just that. We did laundry, caught up with the blog, read, and I wrote in my journal. In Africa though, even in days off, we experience many things unlike we ever have before. A few highlights from today: Laundry: Drying laundry is [...]
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What’s Better Than One Gorilla Post?
Blog: No Hurry Curry - 6 October 2009
9/20/09: Nkuringo, Uganda This is a gorillapod. It’s nice, lightweight and will definitely come in handy when Zhou and I don’t have anyone nearby to take photos of us around the world. This is a gorilla pod. See the difference a space makes? … Zhou described much of our experience in yesterday’s post, but I feel it bears repeating from my [...]
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Gorillas, or Why Zhou and Kevin Came to Africa
Blog: No Hurry Curry - 5 October 2009
9/20/09: Nkuringo, Uganda When Kevin and I planned this trip, the one thing at the very top of my must-do list was to see the gorillas. I wanted to see gorillas more than I wanted to do anything else. More than Machu Picchu, more than the pyramids, more than the Himalayas, even more than Thailand [...]
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I’m a Wimp and a Better Person Because of It
Blog: No Hurry Curry - 4 October 2009
9/19/09: Nkuringo, Uganda I was heading to the toilets to pee when a large animal ran across my path. It was well after sunset, so through the beam on my headlamp I struggled to make out the mighty figure rushing past me down the hill toward the village. A jackal? A lion? A woolly mammoth? Any [...]
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Two Weeks After Our Wedding…
Blog: No Hurry Curry - 3 October 2009
9/19/09: Uganda You really have no idea how bad the roads are here. I’ve said it many times before, but it bears repeating. Today our minibus drove up and down bumpy mountainsides with reckless abandon, literally a foot away from sending us tumbling to ours deaths hundreds of feet below. About three hours into our perilous ride [...]
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Equatorial Equations
Blog: No Hurry Curry - 2 October 2009
9/18/09: The equator, Uganda For the last week I have been trying to convince Kevin to let me buy some small souvenirs – earrings or a bracelet – to no avail. Whether this is because he is inherently cheap or because he really doesn’t want to carry the extra 0.1 ounce I’m not sure. I’m leaning [...]
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Moses Could Part the Red Sea with His Abs
Blog: No Hurry Curry - 29 September 2009
9/16/09: Nile River, Uganda There have been days where I’ve woken up and thought, “Today’s going to be a really good day – a new episode of Survivor is on!” Don’t get me wrong – those are really good days. This morning though, I woke up to the thought, “Today I’m going to white water raft the [...]
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It’s a Bird! It’s a Plane! No, It’s a Bird!
Blog: No Hurry Curry - 27 September 2009
9/15/09: Jinja, Uganda I think I speak for everyone who was there when I say I have a new hero. We had paid our 3,000 Uganda Shillings ($1.50) apiece to hike down to the first class 5 rapid that we will raft over tomorrow on the Nile. After a short trek from our campsite, we arrived at [...]
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"The cheque's in the post ...." apparently
Blog: Kampala Days (Diary of a Mzungu) - 27 September 2009
Off to the Post Office in the morning to see whether I have any birthday cards (tuesday 29th ).
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Catching a Moment as it Flies By
Blog: No Hurry Curry - 26 September 2009
9/15/09: Jinja, Uganda There are lots of things that go on each day that I want to write about but don’t, like: when I accidentally stepped on a flamingo skull at Lake Nakuru how Kevin decided he should be in charge of all of our important documents because I tend to lose things and then I tested him [...]
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We Must Be Here, Or We’re In Denial
Blog: No Hurry Curry - 25 September 2009
9/14/09: Jinja, Uganda Zhou and I have a long trip ahead of us, so we are closely monitoring what we spend. When the opportunity was brought up a couple days ago for us to join some of our group in white water rafting the Nile for $125 per person, we politely declined. Today we reached the source [...]
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My 'new' new life
Blog: Kampala Days (Diary of a Mzungu) - 24 September 2009
Q: what gets stared at more than a mzungu?A: a mzungu with a dog!
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Out of town ...Kampala riots far away
Blog: Kampala Days (Diary of a Mzungu) - 10 September 2009
Woke to the sound of birds (and possibly a baboon!) this morning, at the Uganda Wildlife Authority hostel on the Mweya peninsula in Queen Elizabeth National Park. A fantastically beautiful place tho the accom is very basic: only 1 tap works, the curtains don’t close and there are no hangers on the rail. But boy was the bed comfy!An 8 hr journey from Kampala – and I’d slept for 3 hours – but still slept like a log.
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A day in the life ... species by species
Blog: Kampala Days (Diary of a Mzungu) - 23 August 2009
"Greetings!" As we say in Uganda.We may not have the same change of seasons as Europe but the insects don’t know that! They come and go in phases. If you’ve been reading my blog regularly you’ll have met:Mosquitoes and ‘roaches http://kampaladays.blogspot.com/2009/03/dealing-with-insects-aka-therapy-with.html – hell, but they do their own relentless thing all the year round!
