http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Cape-Verde/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Africa , Cape Verde en-us Sat, 26 Jul 2008 20:29:13 BST Sat, 26 Jul 2008 20:29:13 BST My apologies for not posting pictures yesterday. The one internet caf in Saint Vincent had only one computer with internet the wireless cost 10 an hour. I just couldnrsquot justify spending that amount when Irsquoll be in Barcelona in less than a week. Cape Verde was greathellipway too quick but great. I signed up for a shore excursion in the morning because it was cheap and the only wa http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Cape-Verde/blog-256811.html The last two days have been great. March 10 was a free day and it was also wedding day. I had cultural show rehearsal in the morning and spent the afternoon reading and beautifying myself for the wedding. We all filed outside at 5 for the ceremony which was very multicultural. Not only was everyone dressed in outfits from around the world but we had a nondenominational ceremony a reading from http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Cape-Verde/blog-255489.html I remember writing last let that I thought it was my busiest leg I would have more time to blog in the future. I was wrong.Our first day back my computer charger completely died. I asked IT if they had computers to loan and they did not. I really thought I was donehellipI donrsquot know how to function on this boat without a computer. Then I found out the LRC library computers had undergo http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Cape-Verde/blog-254605.html Septima the super sleeperHaving been here for about two and a half weeks one would think that we would be sufferig cabin fever yet surprisingly we are not. Although that may have more to do with the fact that given the amount of running we have been doing yes running on sand is now my personal hell Seppy has been designated the super sleeper of the group having sucessfully slept for http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Cape-Verde/Sal/blog-249011.html 1 240km over different terrain sanddunes rocks soft sand roads mountains who knows what else2 In the Western Sahara Desert in Morocco3 Carrying your own food sleeping bag emergency kit clothes and anything else you may need4 The organisers will provide 9 litres of water over the course of a day which will have to be sufficient for drinking cooking and sanitary purposes. They also provid http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Cape-Verde/Sal/blog-246680.html Life at sea. So filled with contrasts that you every minute is torn between the most extreme feelings and emotions there are. A day when the sun smiles down on you and the wind is favourable you feel like you are on the top of the world and everything just makes sense. Whereas when the rain pours down and the wind makes the sea angry you merely feel like a wet spot with no purpose or place So far http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Cape-Verde/S-o-Vicente/blog-226076.html Well i've been living here for a month now seems to have flown bycheck out my pics to see what i've been up to http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Cape-Verde/Sal/blog-207003.html St LouisDakarCape VerdeTom GriffithFesta Cape Verde like most isolated micronations is a pretty bloody weird place. It is not exactly a tourist mecca lying out in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean and coming somewhere slightly above Burkina Faso in the'Where the hell is that' stakes. In fact I'd barely heard of it until we saw it in the West Africa Lonely Planet and thought it might be a n http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Cape-Verde/S-o-Vicente/blog-166357.html Idiosyncrasies of unknown origin conjure against the possible footballculture binomial. It seems that in the modern western traveler cosmogony the world is divided in two groups separated by waterproof doors. On one side of this imaginary partition find place those brainless football lovers who eat meat drink beer and listen to cheesy songs. Incapable of thinking to anything deeper than a corne http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Cape-Verde/Santiago/blog-162410.html Boavista in Cabo Verdeapril 2006A beautiful corner in the middle of the ocean... No more Africa not yet Brasil... http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Cape-Verde/blog-54128.html