I did it my way ;-)

And now, the end is near;
And so I face the final curtain.
My friend, I'll say it clear,
I'll state my case, of which I'm certain.

I've lived a life that's full.
I've traveled each and every highway;
And more, much more than this,
I did it my way.

Jambo jambo

Today is my last day on Zanzibar. Tomorrow evening my plane is leaving from Dar Es Salaam. It's weird to leave but I'm looking forward to good old Switzerland.

Not much happened the last days on Zanzibar. One spectacular thing though happened 2 weeks ago. Khamis went to pick up Ruth in Dar Es Salaam as she came back from Switzerland and I was housesitting. Khamis left on Friday I think and everything looked great. The roof of the club they're building looked perfect and almost finished just the covers were missing called Makuti in Swahili. So Khamis was really excited and looking forward to Ruth seeing it all. But the wind is strong in Zanzibar as people say. On Sunday morning when I got up everything seemed to be o.k. The sky was clouded and it wasn't too warm but apart from that it seemed to be a pretty good day. At around 10 am it started to rain so I left my spot on the verendah and went inside to read my book and drink my coffee. I was reading when I heard a sound like thunder and thought..but I didn't really react by it because it was raining and I just assumed the sound was thunder. At 12 pm I checked on the weather and look outside my window into the direction of the club. I looked at the club and thought, something's very strange..and I looked again and realised the roof was down. Just like that the whole roof fell down into the club. I ran outside to check if the builders were o.k. and they were but everybody was in shock. No one could believe what happened and everyone was sad, standing there helpless.

They say it was the wind and the roof wasn't fixed well enough so it didn't take much for it to come down. Anyway, there wasn't much time wasted by being sad on Monday Khamis and Ruth were back from Dar Es Salaam and on Tuesday the builders started building again. Now the roof is almost up again and it looks much more stable then before.

That's the major news from Zanzibar.

Yesterday, I attended the beach party in Kendwa and today my head feels like it was 10 tons heavy. But I will survive ;-)

That's it my friends. My journey is over for this time. I'll upload pictures next week so you'll see a bit more of my travel.

Hope you enjoyed my blog..Kwa heri :-)

This is about the booze cruise which wasn't a cruise

Jambo Jambo

Hope, you're good :-)

I'm good. Survived the weekend although I wasn't too sure about it ;-)

It all started on Saturday which is party day but this Saturday was different because it was the birthday of famous Ali Ndogo. We were excited because his birthday means booze cruise and booze cruise means fun and fun is good :-).

So, we were on time, the wazungus at least, waiting at the beach at Cholo's the cruise was supposed to start at 4 p.m., African time of course. It started at 5 p.m. or better we thought it would start when we got on the boat at 5 p.m. But there was a problem or better the captain had one. So we stayed on the boat in front of Cholo's and were looking at the beach while the time passed. An hour later we were still there already a little bit drunk but still waiting to go. A few attempts were made to leave but none of them was successful because there was something wrong with the generator and therefore there was no music and that was a big problem because birthday booze cruise without music, not working. So, we waited and waited. At around 7 p.m. we finally left and went on the shortest booze cruise in the history of booze cruises it took about 30 min and we were back at Cholo's. At least we spent some time at the boat and had booze ;-)

After the cruise we went to the beach party at Kendwa. And there it was habatoshi..yes. Loooootsss of fishermen made my life a bit more interesting and my running skills got better and better. Some of them I could scare off but some of them will still be there next Saturday and I'm really looking forward to it ;-)

Hm, that's it. There are more news but they have to wait. So, be patient as the Africans say and stay tuned, that's what I say ;-)

Crazy Island is still alive

Jambo rafiki

I'm back on crazy island and already survived the first party. I'm doing good, there's not much left to do now. Just get looootsss and looottsss of tan and shop some souvenirs and partying of course.

My travel from Entebbe to Dar Es Salaam went well and I caught the ferry in Dar at 1 p.m. so lucky me I was back in Zanzibar at 3 p.m. and enjoyed pizza and even a beer. Met some friends and got a ride back to Nungwi.

Not much changed and it feels like I've never left. Nevertheless I'm happy to be back.

Pictures of the gorillas will follow no worries. Need to find a faster internet connection for this task but I'll get there no worries.

That's it for the moment. If anything interesting happens during my last weeks here, I'll let you know :-)

Kampala getting used to it ;-)

Jambo, jambo

Hope you're all sound and well.

I'm good, I'm getting the hang of Kampala and am really enjoying now what it has to offer. For example Swiss chocolate far too expensive though but how can a Swiss resist? And there's bacon and there are boookkkss and and and. However, tomorrow I'll get moving down to Entebbe and will have a proper look at Lake Victoria. Hope it is as impress as I imagine it to be :-).

On Friday it'll be goodbye Uganda, or better see you some other time Uganda, because I'll be back for sure, and Hello Tanzania. In Dar Es Salaam I'll meet up with Kjerstie again and will head for the crazy island. We'll check out what the boys been up to ;-). Also, I have to work on my tan. I went all pale again in Uganda as there's no beach and in more or less 3 weeks I'll be back in Switzerland again and of course I want to show off some colour ;-). Hehe.

I hope I'll be able to upload some pictures from the gorillas once I'm back in Zanzibar. Otherwise you'll have to wait and see in July. But no worries I'll do my best to upload them before I'll be back home :-)

Yep, that's about it for now. Stay tuned, I'm sure there's more to follow ;-)

Jinja

Cheers les amis

I hope you're all well. I'm feeling very good. I'm still in Jinja and I still like it. Although I'll be leaving tonight, what can you do?

I arrived here on Wednesday and spent one night in town and went up to the falls on Thursday. It was nice and relaxing there. After spending two nights at the camp and playing looooooots of card games (and some of them I'll even remember because I wrote down the rules...yes, yes, yes..good girl mimi) and reading looootss of pages in my book Sergio and I decided to go back to town. So Saturday we were back at the backpackers in town. We spent the day walking through Jinja doing some shopping and mainly annoying the people from Zain communications. Sergio bought a Zain sim card last week in Kampala and till today he can't send any text messages which is slightly annoying for him but good fun for me ;-).So, we occupied the Zain shop and were very persistent and the women working there despised us. Because, we shouted at them, we were nice, we just sat there and stared at them, we called the customer care etc. etc. After 2 hours of waiting, shouting and staring we were informed that all the Zain numbers sold in Uganda beginning with 6 don't work for text messages. We were told to be patient and that the problem will be solved by 5 the next day..hehe, of course it wasn't. So today it'll be another Zain day ;-)

Saturday night we hit the night clubs in Jinja..clubs is good, the one night club I must say. It was good, the music was more like music I would expect in Southamerica but anyway we had good fun. Yesterday wasn't as funny though. My head nearly exploded and I was soooo tired. We had a group of Americans staying at our dorm. So, at 4.30 a.m. Sunday morning they came from the nightclub making noise and noise and noise..I just looked at them (as I'm very good at staring now) and they apologised, of course..so back to sleep only to be wide awake 2 hours later because then the whole group had to go to the toilet, one by one. Door open, door shot, door open door shot, door open door shot..one after the other..after 20 minutes of door banging I tried to go back to sleep again..but noooooo, at 7 a.m. the alarmclock of one of the girls went off. great...O.k. at 7.05 a.m. try to sleep again.but noooo 10 minutes later the phone of one of the girls rang and at 7.30 a.m. the whole group was awake including me, because they had to discuss money exchange and its problems..A really urgent matter to be discussed at 7.30 a.m. on a Sunday morning after being out all night ;-). So, grandma Regina got up at 7.30 a.m. to enjoy a nice cup of coffee and was hoping no talking would be involved..but noooooo, never underestimate the Americans (sorry, my American friends, I like you, you know that, but sometimes your countrymen are just toooo much ;-)) so, enjoying my cup of coffee including cigarette (which actually should have chased away Americans) hoping for some time of peace an American sat next to me. I'm sure he just wanted to be nice, seeing me sitting all by myself enjoying my coffee, he started to talk asked questions (my head banging you must know) and I grumpy as Grumpy the dwarf answered like "hhmm." "no" "yes" but it didn't stop him from talking...so, nothing with peace and quiet ;-)

Yep, had a tired grumpy day yesterday but today I'm feeling like being 20 again and am ready for new adventures. So watch out Americans, I'm coming ;-)

Stay tuned folks and have a splendid week