We are almost at the end of our Africa journey. Originally, we had the idea to travel for a full year, but we feel that nine months in total has given us a very full and rewarding experience already and that staying here another few months wouldn’t add up to this experience. We are longing to be home, to see you all and digest on all the ...
Continue ReadingContrary to Namibia, where we camped in the wild or on campsites most of the times, here the offer of campsites in the cities that we visited is limited. So we have spent a lot of time in backpacker hostels where we parked on the parking lot and used the kitchen and shower facilities in the lodge. Let’s not pretend that there ...
Continue ReadingHello again everybody! Sorry it took awhile before you heard from us but we have been pretty preoccupied with everything between enjoying tear-bringing views and surviving desert drives. I’ll tell you all about it in a shortlist of events happening in the past few weeks. Just a short recap of our whereabouts past weeks: after ...
Continue ReadingAfter Rwanda we drove to Tanzania. Our first experience with Tanzania was painted in black, white and fluorescent yellow: the Tanzanian traffic police. Where on Rwandan roads, we saw only a handful of officers, Tanzania had stationed two law enforcers every 30 kilometres. We got stopped everywhere and had to show driving license, insurance and ...
Continue ReadingIt has been awhile since you have heard from us, but this blog writer took a short break over the holidays, so we have a lot of catching up to do! I hope everybody had a warm and loving Christmas and has celebrated a great New Year. Next story will be about our travels between Rwanda and Malawi, but since this story is still in the making, ...
Continue ReadingAbout 4,5 months we have been on the road now, and these have been our first 4,5 months ‘living together’ in our house called Bushi. Some of you asked us how it is: how we live and how we organize things around here. Let’s give you a little peek into our daily small victories and major challenges that we face here, in African ...
Continue ReadingIt made Cornelius feel proud of his country: at the border, German citizens can enter the country without visa. All others have to buy one. Why? We are guessing it’s because the Germans were the first colonialists from 1895 to 1916, before the Belgians took over after WWI. The Germans never really intervened with local politics or ...
Continue ReadingIf men do decide to read this post: you do so at your own risk, so don’t throw any accusations of being utterly superficial at me afterwards… I count on my female friends that they regard this story in the right context 🙂 So we are in Kigali, the capital of Rwanda. There are interesting, impressive things to write about this ...
Continue ReadingIt is a sunny morning and I’m sitting next to the car listening to the morning birds singing while overlooking the shadowy garden. Cornelius is still in bed trying his best to ignore the noise coming from the construction site next door. We are at a backpackers lodge in delightful Kampala, Uganda. We did manage to get here bribe-free, ...
Continue ReadingWhen writing this, we are on the road to Ethiopia. The further we get, the greener the surroundings. The ground is more and more convincingly covered in grass and green bushes. Less camels, more cows. Less sand and dust, more mud. As we get closer to the border, the temperature decreases slowly to under 35 degrees for the first time ...
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