Day 9 - Zanzibar - Stone Town - 7/8/09 Woke up today by the sound of rain drops on the tents. Great! Got up, got dressed and took the tents down in the rain. We were on the truck by 0630, headed for Dar Es Salaam, we were chased all day by a really dark cloud. Eventually after 9 hours of driving we reached Dar. Moses gave us 2 hours to wonder round Dar. I went off with Duncan and Cat; we simply decided to have a beer. We stumbled on The Kilimanjaro hotel so we went inside and had 2 [View Full Entry]

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Day 4 - Arusha (Tanzania) - 2/8/09 Arrived at Hotel Boulevard for the departure of the tour, which left Nairobi at 0930. We stopped off for some last minute supplies and made our way to the Tanzania border. The roads were awful, shaking us around like rag dolls, up and down, up and down in the truck. On the tour there’s 23 of us picking up a couple of extra people in Zanzibar. Eventually after much staring out of the window we arrived at the Kenyan border. We all got out, filling in our departure record to be stamped out by [View Full Entry]

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Day 1 - London - 30th July Finally, I somehow manage to arrive on the African continent. I say somehow as due to packing fiascos; have I packed enough, have I packed too much, could it be repacked better, forgetting to pack stuff (I own 3 pairs of sunglasses but managed to pack none!) and other little dramas along to way I somehow manage to arrive in Nairobi. Even when my standby ticket was confirmed and having 20 minutes to get threw security, to the gate and onto the aircraft; not even having to run and step round people like Cristano [View Full Entry]

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London. Isn’t it just the greatest city in the world? Ok, maybe I am a bit bias about that statement. Living in London; a sprawling metropolis, a mismatch of cultures, ethnically and linguistically. It also has to be noted that it is one of the most expensive cities in Europe. As a result of having evening appointments and a Travelcard; I decided to do some of the touristy stuff that I haven’t done since I was little I get up to Charing Cross at about 1030, walked up to Trafalgar Square, where the pigeons are already out in force looking for [View Full Entry]

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Day 4 Wednesday was mainly wasted due to the night’s activities; we both woke up at 5pm. We decided to go of to Baga; which is the big touristy spot of Goa. The taxi dropped us all the way at the bottom on Baga beach, we went and found this lovely restaurant that was actually on the beach, it was all open aired under roofing, the tables and chairs being cleared away during the day, just being used as a bar area. The waiter came over and we ordered; I ordered a Goan fish curry and Sam ordered some kind of [View Full Entry]

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Day 1 Arrived on Sunday afternoon, after a long long trip from London via Larnica. This isn’t the story of the trip to India I had planned when getting my visa but I got to kill two birds with one stone; a trip to India and to spend a week with the girlfriend. Sam, my girlfriend is crew for Monarch but this detail didn’t mean that I got dealt with any quicker at immigration. I like everybody else stood in the queue being pushed pulled, shoved around like cattle. I suppose it was the kind of organized chaos that I should [View Full Entry]

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25th Feb On the 3 ½ hours round trip back to Buenos Aires I didn’t really sleep that much and to be honest I think I was still quite hungover as when I collected my rucksack as I had managed to get it checked in this time, there was a big queue which I joined thinking it was some kind of landing fee so I handed over my $10 US bill and gave the address I was staying at like everybody else. I was putting my hostel details back in my daypack and this hand grabs my rucksack, I was like [View Full Entry]

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On Friday did the groucho tour to see how the people live in the pampas area of Argentina. To be honest the actually tour was pretty rubbish; the food was quite dry, like it had been overcooked, don’t drink red wine and actually the only thing that saved it was that the live performances were absolutely outstanding, you know more tango and stuff. Anyways, whilst I was there I got talking to this Dutch guy, Pieter; he was really a cool and interesting guy. The journey on the coach home was spent talking to him about everything and anything, football, politics [View Full Entry]

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18th Feb 09 Day 2 of my trip and so far it's been quite enjoyable. Arrived at my hostel yesterday at about midday and was knackered. I slowly unpacked my rucksack and got changed. I set out and started to wonder, not to any particular place but just around. Actually, I spent most of the day doing that, wondering around the different barrios admiring the beautiful building. Eventually, I wondered back to my hostel at about 7pm and Florida Street; where my hostel was located was full of various traders selling there various wears in the middle of the street as [View Full Entry]

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10 - 12 - 08 Arrived at the airport in Cape Town and queued to get though immigration, approached the desk and I was greeted by a very friendly fellow; we exchanged niceties and then he issued me with the temporary visa and stamped my passport. I’m actually a bit of a passport whore; I love getting my passport stamped and getting visas put in it! I was exiticed; I had always wanted to come to Africa, ever since I met a Chinese couple in Naples and Cape Town seemed liked the safest place on Africa I thought for a while [View Full Entry]

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