Grand Hotel Kinshasa

... refuse donc et part pour traversee le pays direction la Zambie. Cette traversee sera longue (5 semaines) et j apprendrai a attendre pour attraper n importe quel vehicule vers la prochaine ville. Je suis le 2eme touriste cette annee a avoir traversee le congo de Kinshasa vers la Zambie.

... is a decent regular place to meet. They estimate that if everyone who is interested started attending we could have an attendance approaching 100 with the children. We will continue to work on bylaw rules for registering an association here in Congo so that we can operate safely and legally. Of course poverty is an issue, we discussed that, and ways we might realistically be able to help ...

... Zimbabwe is NOT THAT BAD. Here there was once a strike at the university. The strike lasted one day before people came and looted the university. I will take pictures and show you... i am so serious, they looted the university. You had people walking out with the glass windows, sinks, toilets, pretty much anything that could be removed. When I saw the place, I thought they had been bombed, but it turns out the people did this to their own university. There is no sense ...

... the room, the phone rang again. This time it was Mr. Bamongo. We walked out to the garden and talked for 3 hours about similar historical and organizational questions. He has served faithfully in rather trying circumstances for years. It's good that more help is arriving for them here. We finally parted; I didn't want to keep him out too late since Kinshasa gets quite dangerous at night. Mr. Mukendi had said he doesn't go out at all after dark if he can ...

... since I should have had a connection time of just one hour to go through security checks, and change t**minals. I've done that before and it's almost a footrace. Arriving an hour early left me time to have a breakfast snack in the Air France Lounge before boarding the Airbus 330 going to Kinshasa. The flight was uneventful. I had the chance to watch the latest Indiana Jones movie: pretty good, but not the best by any means, it didn't feel as spontaneous as ...

... blocked off a section of the big Boulevard in the city centre. It was dark, so it wasn't easy to make out what was going on, but there was a heady smell, and I could hear the distinctive tinkling shingle of broken glass being swept into piles. A solid-looking policewoman was barking orders at overalled road-sweepers, gesturing with both arms, as if to help shift the glass off the ...

Q: Which of these two cars should be overtaking the lorry? A: Neither. All three vehicles are approaching a blind corner, and a similar circus could be coming the ...