30th June 2008 - 8th September 2008

And all the flights were... £700!! I did bargain between two travel agents though (thanks to inside information from Miss B K. )

SO...bascailly I have 8 months left living in Norfolk before this adventure and my relocation to where ever takes me in for Uni! Not that I really see any of my fellow Norfolkish citizens due to working (inc college) 52 hours a week.....my maths is getting better! (I worked it out as 40 the other day.) which is good because I need to retake my GCSE maths and get an 'A' if I want to be able to relocate to bath.

So if you know maths, a free holiday to bath could be in it for you! :-)

Conversation with unspecified customer

me 'do you have double glazing madam?'

them 'oh yes'

me 'which pane of glass is broken? the outer or the inner?'

them 'the one in the middle'

me 'um, do you have triple glazing?'

them 'no..'

(it later gets pointed out to me that I am a doofus because how could the middle pane of triple glazing be broken without the outer two?

If you've ever been to Africa....

...and been mildly frustrated by the wait for public transport to depart, thank your stars you've never been to The Democratic Republic of The Congo (unless you have which, I'd be fascinated to learn)

The main form of trade transport is along the river Congo, Where large barges transport up to 500 people. In Ghana it was not unusual to for me to wait a few hours for transport to fill up so it could depart.


Transport in Ghana, just after we crashed ;-)




In the DRCC, if one wants to travel to another town on such a barge (which is common due to the only vehicles being military or UN ones) a minimum wait of one month is expected for the barge to accumulate enough passengers to depart, with a maximum wait of THREE MONTHS on a dirty, overcrowded metal barge with one 'toilet'


A river barge...finally on it's way.

True, Public transport is probably the leaset of concern for the population of DRCC, I'm quite sure they are more concerned about the mass slaughter of innocent people due to civil war. And time doenst exsist in Africa so it's not like anyone will be late for anything. But geez, I get narked about waiting 5 minutes for a bus.

I first became aware of this having watched a programme called 'Equator' on 'Dave- the home of witty banter',though actually a repeat from the BBC). If you've got a spare 40 minutes please go here >

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/equator/5264140.stm

And watch the programme titled 'Africa'. Thanks. It's not your bog-standard geographical documentary. It is in fact, really really good.(if you have a spare 3x 40 mins then by all means watch all 3 programmes!



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Republic_of_the_Congo

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghana

What a load of rubbish....

...I talk.

Don't know if anyone still reads this/blogs in general, so this is a test, due to my complaint I recieved from one of my fans about my blogs one year.....(I want
to use the word here that vicars use when they are on holiday...Amnesty?). So this is a test, I'll write something proper when I've worked out whether the blog community is still active. For now, I'll leave you with quotes from some of my wittier previous posts. Forget Dave, I am the home of witty banter.

"A thought to leave you on,how do you know what someones opinion of you is if the only indication of it is in a dream that you had ??
(unrelatedly in the same dream I walked the entire English coastlitne whilst escaping from and avalanche with Katie and played Keiths' bass which was, in fact, a baguette.)"


"Whats the stupidest animal in the rainforest?

A Polar Bear"

That is all.