Hotel Ave Maria
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Brazzaville to Kinshasa
... customs clearance for the bikes. No signs and hard to tell whose on charge, those in very detailed uniforms (with brades, medals and badges and caps) tend not to speak to mere mortals while those shouting instructions only officialness (is that a word?) is given away by their whip and hand cuffs! Heathrow terminal 5 this is not! It gets a bit crazy when the touts start scrambling for work, all claiming ...
Week one in the books!!
... Gwenda said it is very special to be greeted by these men because they have a lot of power in the area. This was evident by the fact that they took care of all of picking up our luggage at baggage claims and transported them to the Fletcher’s home. We then went and had lunch at one of the major churches in Kananga. Kananga is famous for their goat population and for their pineapples. For lunch we had chicken, rice, fish, pineapple and a spinach ...
Meetings in Kinshasa
... since my visits are only 2 or 3 times a year. It was a very pleasant meeting.
I’ll have a quick dinner and make it an early night tonight. Tomorrow I need to be ready to head to the airport at 7:00 to make sure we have time to make our way through the post-apocalyptic traffic to the airport. If all goes as planned tomorrow I should arrive late afternoon in Nairobi and spend a short night there on my way to ...
It's So African!
... of tarmac left to bounce up and bang off 4 meters later. We rolled into Matadi in the late afternoon. It is bigger, the capital of the province of Lower Congo, built on the steep side of the Congo which goes on up to a pretty big rock mountain/ hill above the city. We stayed at a huge old Swedish mission station, run by Congolese since 1960 when Congo gained independence. It was up on the hill, so quite a bit cooler at night - still glad when ...
Orphan Story
This week has been incredible for me. I have had an amazing privilege. A few months back I received an email from a family from the USA that "happened" upon my blog. They are adopting two little ones from here in the DRC. We began to correspond and they asked me to check in on their little ones if I had the opportunity to. They will not be here for several weeks yet so they wanted us to look in on ...
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