July 2008

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Hitchhiking from Prague to Beijing

Hitchhiking from Prague to Beijing

My soccer mate Tomas works for a local newspaper here in Prague and got some really weird assignments including hitchhiking all the way from Prague to Beijing in time for the Olympics.

Obama in Berlin

Obama in Berlin

If Obama is in Berlin today as part of his international tour as a candidate for the US presidential seat, so was I exactly a week ago.

Travel and safety

When it comes to health, it’s difficult to take risks like what happened to my colleagues when they traveled to Uganda. We’re always supposed to take anti-malaria tablets but they didn’t. Unfortunately they got bitten by the deadly mosquito and you can imagine what happened next to them.
The same thing can [...]

The blue waters of Zanzibar

W O W !!!  So this is how the their beach looks like.

I got this picture from my colleagues last night.  They went to Zanzibar last weekend without me!  But wait, I’m flying back (AGAIN!) to Uganda tomorrow, so maybe there is still a chance of me going to Zanzibar after all. 

An aborted Zanzibar trip

While in Uganda, we planned to go to Zanzibar last weekend. Zanzibar is still part of Africa, in the Eastern side which belongs to the republic of Tanzania. We’ve been told there were nice Zanzibar beaches in its coast and numerous islets. A day in the beach to unwind was our target [...]

Back from Kampala, Uganda

I’m back from Kampala!
But I’m swamped with work that’s why I’m not able to post regularly. Anyway, as soon as I have enough time I’ll post more about my recent trip to Uganda. Meanwhile, I’ll leave you with a lovely picture of two African giraffes:

and a monkey nibbling on a grass: