Unprepared Franta's blog

October 14, Ethiopia, Addis Ababa

We arrived to Ethiopia and became scared of the country ...
It is a very poor country ...
The country will stay in our minds for a long time ...

This is not Africa. Cars are going on the right side, they somehow follow the traffic rules, they use European electric plugs, they give you a receipt similar to Czech receipts to everything purchased, their currency has almost the same value as the Czech currency, they stay in queues, they do not smile on the streets, they do not care much of the foreigners, they have funny anti-corruption ads ...

We started to be scared of Ethiopian people ...
We changed our mind and started to love Ethiopian people ...
We changed our mind and started to hate Ethiopian people ...
We changed our mind and realized that Ethiopian people are normal and that you can find good and bad ones ...

We were sightseeing, we were enjoying cheap and great coffee and food, we were scammed in a "chat underground club".
We were travelling 15 hours in a local bus, we were feeding giant hyenas, we were travelling back 12 hours in a minibus.
We got 39.0 fever, we visited 2 hospitals, we got negative malaria tests and are perfectly healthy now.
We got visa to Egypt and yesterday, we got the rare Sudanese visa.

We heard that some Sudanese extremists wait for western tourists at the border crossing with Ethiopia and attack or kidnap them. So, let's hope, we will meet again in Egypt.

June 28

We arrived to the freezing cold Johannesburg, visited 2 matches ...
We were fans of Ghana, Ghana lost ...
We were fans of Italy, Italy lost ...
We got cold, tired, sick ...
We found out that we do not like the expensive and dangerous Jo'Burg ...

We will try to recover in the warmer Durban and then we will decide, what to do with our lives ...

June 12

Welcome to Moscow on 12th June, the Day of Russia.

But do not forget, Boljschoj Brat is watching you ...

May 17

On the last day in Beijing before our departure to Inner Mongolia, we went shopping. And we bought lots of original stuff. You can always need a couple of spare GB, right?

We copied to it as test several GB, we copied them back. Everything seems to work fine. So where is the problem? What do you think?

Unprepared Departure

So, we finally left. The plan was November 17, after my problems with injured finger and teeth, we moved the planned departure to the night after the Good-Bye party on November 11, the next planned departure was on December 1 and then each following day. Andrea was already a little bit pissed off that I had not still finished packing, moving my stuff, renting my apartment, copying all files, installing all programs, purchasing all the stuff for the trip, packing the backpack for the trip ...