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Thursday, September 21st, 2006
Monkey Magic? Tragic….
I was packed and ready to go, my special hire taxi came at 6.30am and i grabbed a quick breakfast and went off to see the chimps or 8am. Or so I had hoped. When we got to the NP I had enough for the trek and to get me back to Kampala…. or so [...]
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Wednesday, September 20th, 2006
I wanted to leave today…!
Doing bugger all isn’t too bad, I went to look at the local market but couldn’t see anything worth buy despite my best efforts. I needed thread to repair my backpack and didn’t see any. I had fun and games at the local internet cafe with their appaling connectionn meaning I wasted 30 minutes faffing [...]
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Tuesday, September 19th, 2006
1 day / 4 sentences = very lazy day!
Didn’t do much, walked into town and got trapped by the rain which really came down at 2pm. Tried to book the chimp trekking for Wednesday, paid for the taxi only to be told it was full on Wednesday. Dammit, check before you take my money!! Had to settle for Thursday.
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Monday, September 18th, 2006
Going Caving (in the very vaguest sense of the word)
I walked back into the town and hired a bike from the local tour company to go off and see the nearby caves. It was a nice ancient design with the crank all wobbly and off center. One gear so you had to push it up hills and a real bonshaker when going down them [...]
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Sunday, September 17th, 2006
Death Race 2000
I hadn’t packed, I was just so tired, I didn’t set my alarm and got up about 10am. No bus for me, I was going to have to take the worse option, a ‘2 1/2 hour’ Matatu to Fort Portal :( Stupid lazy tourist! Breakfast and then off the taxi place, at least the sun was [...]
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Saturday, September 16th, 2006
Another night in a one horse town (with gas station disco…)
I left at 5am the next day, quite why they have to have so many buses all leaving at the same tmie, all on the same route, all not considering about leaving until full and all driving around for 1+ hours after the ‘departure time’ is beyond me. If they left at fixed times people [...]
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Friday, September 15th, 2006
Property magnate
I decided to stay another day and investigate, there was nothing much to do in town otherwise. Joseph met me at 9am the next day and we rode back out to have another look. I Itold him in no uncertain terms I would never send any money to buy something without being there and I [...]
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Thursday, September 14th, 2006
On the lake without a paddle
We got back to the bike and started off down the hill. I wasn’t a sealed road but was pretty dry, we passed several buildings and people would wave and say hello, making the occasional comment to Joseph as we passed in the local language. Someone was standing in the middle of the road and [...]
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Thursday, September 14th, 2006
‘Local Madman kills tourist’.
7.30 was when I ordered my breakfast for the next day and at 7.30 they knocked on my door to tell me to come get breakfast, but was there any breakfast to be seen….? No. Grrr. F**king tell me its NOT READY and i can go get a shower and sort myself out instead of [...]
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Wednesday, September 13th, 2006
The Gorillaz - kids with guns
My taxi driver warned me several times to be ready at 5am, he would be knocking on my door! I was up at 4.50, brushed my teeth, grabbed my gear and waited! typical, had he ran off with the deposit I had paid him or was he just useless? I called his number, nice waste [...]
