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Weltpolitik - Matt

Matt Join, well not literally, my good friend Dave (from Worksop College - there you go big Roy, this bit of free advertising should make up for the whole failure as a Cricket Scholar thing lol) and myself as we travel our way from Egypt, through the Sudan, Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Zambia, Malawi, Mozambique, all the way to South Africa; and witness all our, probably drug fueled as they involve Dave, adventures.
My aim is very similar to Cecil Rhodes', I want the entire map of Africa to be pink....well its more of a red colour actually, but you get the idea.
Daves gone for a bit....join me!

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Well I have recovered all but 3, which is still highly, highly, highly annoying....especially as they were my oldest ones and due to alcohol fuelled binges I can barely remember them....just kidding but still annoying..... will update end of my trip (well from June) when i get back...at some point [View Full Entry]

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By Weltpolitik
August 1st 2007

Hello

 Africa » South Africa » Free State » Bloemfontein
As they pictures paint a thousand words, and as at this point I can't be assed (or actually afford) to write up my blog I am going to publish the relevant pages with pictures only....then leave all you fans wondering about the stories behind them until I get home and spend a day updating them with stories...after I have updated my journal to remind myself what has actually happened...I look at some of these pictures and thought...what the hell! [View Full Entry]

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By Weltpolitik
July 30th 2007

Still Alive

 Africa » Uganda » Central Region » Entebbe
Just to let everyone know where I am, and that (more importantly.....in some peoples priorities...ok only my priorities) that I am still alive. Blogs for Malawi, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Johannesburg and Pretoria, and Uganda will follow....probably in the next few days....more likely when I get home as I am 21 days behind in my Journal. Love Matt [View Full Entry]

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Firstly I start this blog with an Obiturary...of sorts. Today marks the end of whatever relationship Tati and myself still had; in retrospect giving the girl the address of the travelblog on which I detail my conquests and attempted conquests wasn't a great idea. Annoyingly Tati's defection from my list of subscribers has also cut my number of female subsribers in half...which is a blessing in disguise as I believe it is that particular sex which would find more sympathy with Tati, and far more fault with my actions. This is a hint that I expect messages expressing sympathy and bewilderment, [View Full Entry]

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MV Liemba
Hills on banks of Lake
Sunset over Lake

Ok it has been quite a short time since I updated my blog....just over a week...but still there is quite a lot to tell. On the bus from Mombasa, to Dar, (which by the way was driven by a crazy man....any man who races another bus by attempting to pass it on a two lane road with incoming traffic in site is a crazy man) I met a really cool local guy...from a rich family....called Amer; I was invited hunting with him and his friends near Morogoro if I had time...and at the time I was deadly serious when I said [View Full Entry]

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Streets of Stone Town, Zanzibar
Tree Blocking road
Stone Town Front

Well my last few days in Moshi were fairly odd....a lot of unexpected happenings. Firstly, after having a day to myself in which I travelled to Marangu, stayed their to long to get a minibus back, and had a mini adventure travelling to and fro until I finally arrived back at the Honey Badger turnoff...from where I had to walk 2km in the pitch black, a particularily scary walk as the lady sat next to me on my final minibus journey had warned me 'Mzungu's get robbed in the dark'....anyway I made it back safely, much to the amusement of the [View Full Entry]

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All I saw of Kilimanjaro
Giraffe in Tsavo
Me with our Maasi guard

Lake Ziway
Lake Ziway
(You can just see it, I had a better picture but as I explain in my blog I lost it)
Well, finally, after nearly a week of waiting (for the others.....1 1/2 weeks for me) I left Addis; it was actually a sad moment, I had grown to like that city and the habits I had got into there. My final days in the city were quite fun though, going out every night to the plenthora of bars on the Piazza, teaching the others (David (Beats), Dave, and Tania) Irish Snap...the proceeding to play it in the middle of a seedy little bar in a dodgy part of the Merkato, drinking proper Tej...which made Tania sick...then getting charged 8Birr just because [View Full Entry]

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Traditional Southern Ethiopian Village
Monkey at Lake Awase, Wabe Shebele Campsite
Monkey at Lake Awase, Wabe Shebele Campsite

Well the plan was for us (Tati and myself) to be ready and leave at 7-30 to get a minibus to Gondar, so that we could do some stuff that day; 'knock knock'......'KNOCK KNOCK"...it's 7-45 and Tati is pounding at my door to wake me up. 'Bugger'. Eventually I scrape myself out of bed, get dressed, and find Tati talking to the hotel manager and Daniel (who I forgot to mention in my last blog, he's a self trained comedian who basically does impressions of different Nationalities abilities to speak English...he is quite entertaining). After breakfast, and Tati saying goodbye to [View Full Entry]

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Tati, and Gogga
Castle of Gondar
Castle of Gondar

Before I start this blog, I have noticed that in my other two there is one serious ommision....Ferenji fever. With the exception of Addis my days have been filled by little children, and some adults in rural areas, shouting 'You You!...Ferenji' at me, with some of the more enterprising adding 'Give me money'. I try to handle it with poise and good grace, but it is fucking hard...as (unknowingly admittedly) these bastards are just so fucking rude. Also what in god names makes someone shout out what the see (apart from that funny disease I can't spell and therefore won;t [View Full Entry]

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Lalibeal (Mass)
Lalibela
St Georges Church, Lalibela

Well, I'm not dead....yes I can hear the disappointed groans (from Fordy more than likely); I have just being very very lazy. So finally I am going to write this....oh god, nearly 30 days...this is going to cost me so much (internet is 25cents a minute which equates to....almost 1.5p). I am going to split this mammoth task into stages....Addis + Bahar Dar, Gondar + Addis, and Laibela, Axum, + (you guessed it) Addis; hopefully I will have all 3 done before I leave for Kenya...actually thats not very likely...but heres the first bit anyway. Pictures will follow when the [View Full Entry]

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Lucy
Imperial Crowns
Gardens at the Ghion, Bahar Dar



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