Archive for September, 2006
Tuesday, September 12th, 2006
Road to Kisoro
Not much to report, got my rip off taxi at 4am, was on the bus at 4.30am. It left at 6.40 :p Am I suprised….? I put on my headphones and sleeping mask, blew up my pillow and attempted to ignore the preson behind me shoving their knees in my bag, occasionally pulling my hair [...]
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Monday, September 11th, 2006
I feel crook!
I got up about 10am and felt ok, had some breakfast, said goodbye to Dan. Surfed for a while. Decided to leave the trip until the next day which was just as well as around 1pm I felt so bad I lost my breakfast. Ahhh, much better now! Pity I didnt manage it the night [...]
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Sunday, September 10th, 2006
Last day on Banda
Well, the next day I was up at a reasonable time in order to get some breakfast and pack my bag. I also wanted to explore a bit more as apprently there was a nice big garden where all manner of produce was being grown. Steve told me later this was a lie :p However [...]
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Saturday, September 9th, 2006
Playing doctor
My only task today was to charge my depleted camera batteries with the inverted we replaired, but we had to top up the batteries and let the sun do its thing first. One of the dogs ate a chick which was a shame. The only other thing of note was one of the staff telling [...]
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Friday, September 8th, 2006
Lazy day
It rained in the morning and when I dragged myself up I found everyone eating breakfast in the room next to the dorm. It looked like a building site but I spotted a Yamaha acoustic guitar and made a mental note to check it out later. After breakfast I got out my tuner I was [...]
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Thursday, September 7th, 2006
Robinson Crusoe meet Survivor
I dragged myself up at a very respectable 11 am and wandered down to the beach in search of breakfast. Everything looked very nice in the morning, the guys were playing backgammon, the three dogs were racing about as they do and Steves daughter, Lisa, or Busy as he always called her, was poking things [...]
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Wednesday, September 6th, 2006
Paranoia!
Hmmm, looked like I was the only guest, or everyone else was off partying
somewhere else. In any case I had no choice as the boat was shoved off the
beach and i was now stranded! We walked over to the other beach where the
bonfire was still burning and I was presented with my supper. Dom talked [...]
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Wednesday, September 6th, 2006
The Legend of Banda Island
did some research on how to get to Banda and found I had plenty of time, I
texted the number on the internet as confirmed by a poster in the hostel and
headed into town for breakfast and to find out where the bus left from. I
didn’t want to be wandering clueless around the main minibus station [...]
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Tuesday, September 5th, 2006
More bumming around
I was up earlyish after a quiet night, although the f**king danish wankers
that arrived at 1am and then proceded to take an hour getting into bed while
bumping my bunk every 10 minutes didn’t help. They performed the same rick
the next monring at 6am… Newbies… I went into town to get breakfast at
the 1000 cups coffee [...]
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Monday, September 4th, 2006
Hunting a Gorilla (permit)
After I had been relocated into the dorm by the persistent knocking of a member of staff I had to go hunting a gorilla tracking permit. I took a boda-boda (motorcycle taxi) into town and went looking for the Ugandan Wildlife Agency behind the Sherraton. Kampala is just a load of hills, so after puffing [...]
