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donderdag 23 december 2010 om 20:29
quote:Bianca40 schreef op 23 december 2010 @ 20:26:
Maar daar is het juist ook lekker voor Josje... ik ga ook alleen als ik heel moe ben of het heel koud heb.
Hopelijk ben je met de kerstdagen weer wat opgeknapt! Ach ben al niet meer zo misselijk als gisteren en heb gelukig niet meer overgegeven. Maar ik heb nog steeds geen zin in eten. Ti's wel goed voor de lijn, zo voor de kerst
Maar daar is het juist ook lekker voor Josje... ik ga ook alleen als ik heel moe ben of het heel koud heb.
Hopelijk ben je met de kerstdagen weer wat opgeknapt! Ach ben al niet meer zo misselijk als gisteren en heb gelukig niet meer overgegeven. Maar ik heb nog steeds geen zin in eten. Ti's wel goed voor de lijn, zo voor de kerst
donderdag 23 december 2010 om 21:31
Bonjour !
So, long time not heared from me huh !
Good or you want to read some stories, then please proceed
New balance, that's the title and that's what I am looking for.
A new balance in travelling because I didn't enjoy enough, I blamed it on the lariam pills but thought at the same time of something else ...
Every day cycling a 100 , 120 km, trying to reach next town before then and then, always in a hurry ...
Not so much time to relax and enjoy.
And when I had to cycle to a tiny village of mud huts I almost every time lost track so at last, I didn't like riding through those villages anymore !
Asking road directions in a hurry ...
So I was thinking I had to change my way of travelling, gong slowly, enjoy much more, finding a new balance ...
The same with my life, last year has been a tough one, one of the hardest, loosing my mum ...
In that too I have to find a new balance ...
But I am learning !
From Ouagadougou I rode a very interesting, mainly gravel road to the border with Niger, where I am right now. I rode through a National Park with elephants, unlucky I didn't see any of those magnificent animals. But the road was very nice and the new way of travelling too !
Today I went to the Nigerian embassy, where a very unhelpful clerk ' helped ' me ...
Can you believe it took him an hour to give me the visa form I had to fill in ???
And asking all stupid questions and looking in my passport at ALL my visa stamps, carefully reading them all, then saying my passport is almost not good.
I asked, why not ? He said, no more pages for the visa !
( I have at least 5 empty pages and like 5 or 6 only half full ) So I said, no that's not true, look, here is a empty page ! He said, no, there is a stamp on
it ( but the stamp was on the other side, barely visable ... )
What a prick, looking, trying everything to discomfort me ...
I showed him another empty page and then that ' problem ' was solved .
The he said he had to ask inside if I could get a form and maybe, MAYBE then I could get a visa.
After another 15 minutes he returned with more bad news, he said he spoke to his boss and he said I could get a 10 day's visa. 10 day's ? I almost screamed ! That is so not good, I am not paying a 100 euro for a 10 day transit visa ! I
need 30 day's ! He said I go ask but maybe, maybe he will give you 3 weeks ...
Another 15 minutes later he returned, 30 day's not possible, 10 days yes, maybe 3 weeks.
So that was it, mmm not so happy but 3 weeks is better then nothing I thought because this guy was soooo unhelpful !
And maybe, just maybe the guy inside will give me 30 days, which is actually normal for a visa, which I told him.
So again he was gone inside with my passport, returning maybe 20 minutes later.
I asked when I could come back for pick up my passport and he asked if I would
like to pay 10.000 CFA ( 15 euro ) and pick up my passport today, I said, another 10.000 ??? He said, is that much ? I said yes, he then asked for 5000
CFA but I said, look, I have paid 65.000 for a visa, that is a lot of money and I do not even know for sure IF I get this visa so no thank you, I will not pay more money.
That last one I didn't actually say but my intentions were clear, no more money, no bribe.
Then he said, come back at 13.30 to pick up your passport and I was stunned ...
Is it then ready at 13.30 ??? ( that was an hour from now ( I was there at 10.00 ... )
And he said yes.
So I came back an hour later and ...
I got a visa but only for 21 days.
Now I had to find another new balance, travelling slow but still going fast huh hahaha.
But I will not hurry anymore, if I cannot make it in three weeks I take a bus !
Planning to visit Kano and Jos, some nice cities.
But first tomorrow, I will leave Niamey and go to Koure or Kourou, forgot the name ...
It's a place where some of the last giraffes live here, and they must be very tame, look forward to it !
Oh, and I bought some new shoes, second hand but almost brand new for only 15 euro !
The brand ?
Make an educated guess
So, long time not heared from me huh !
Good or you want to read some stories, then please proceed
New balance, that's the title and that's what I am looking for.
A new balance in travelling because I didn't enjoy enough, I blamed it on the lariam pills but thought at the same time of something else ...
Every day cycling a 100 , 120 km, trying to reach next town before then and then, always in a hurry ...
Not so much time to relax and enjoy.
And when I had to cycle to a tiny village of mud huts I almost every time lost track so at last, I didn't like riding through those villages anymore !
Asking road directions in a hurry ...
So I was thinking I had to change my way of travelling, gong slowly, enjoy much more, finding a new balance ...
The same with my life, last year has been a tough one, one of the hardest, loosing my mum ...
In that too I have to find a new balance ...
But I am learning !
From Ouagadougou I rode a very interesting, mainly gravel road to the border with Niger, where I am right now. I rode through a National Park with elephants, unlucky I didn't see any of those magnificent animals. But the road was very nice and the new way of travelling too !
Today I went to the Nigerian embassy, where a very unhelpful clerk ' helped ' me ...
Can you believe it took him an hour to give me the visa form I had to fill in ???
And asking all stupid questions and looking in my passport at ALL my visa stamps, carefully reading them all, then saying my passport is almost not good.
I asked, why not ? He said, no more pages for the visa !
( I have at least 5 empty pages and like 5 or 6 only half full ) So I said, no that's not true, look, here is a empty page ! He said, no, there is a stamp on
it ( but the stamp was on the other side, barely visable ... )
What a prick, looking, trying everything to discomfort me ...
I showed him another empty page and then that ' problem ' was solved .
The he said he had to ask inside if I could get a form and maybe, MAYBE then I could get a visa.
After another 15 minutes he returned with more bad news, he said he spoke to his boss and he said I could get a 10 day's visa. 10 day's ? I almost screamed ! That is so not good, I am not paying a 100 euro for a 10 day transit visa ! I
need 30 day's ! He said I go ask but maybe, maybe he will give you 3 weeks ...
Another 15 minutes later he returned, 30 day's not possible, 10 days yes, maybe 3 weeks.
So that was it, mmm not so happy but 3 weeks is better then nothing I thought because this guy was soooo unhelpful !
And maybe, just maybe the guy inside will give me 30 days, which is actually normal for a visa, which I told him.
So again he was gone inside with my passport, returning maybe 20 minutes later.
I asked when I could come back for pick up my passport and he asked if I would
like to pay 10.000 CFA ( 15 euro ) and pick up my passport today, I said, another 10.000 ??? He said, is that much ? I said yes, he then asked for 5000
CFA but I said, look, I have paid 65.000 for a visa, that is a lot of money and I do not even know for sure IF I get this visa so no thank you, I will not pay more money.
That last one I didn't actually say but my intentions were clear, no more money, no bribe.
Then he said, come back at 13.30 to pick up your passport and I was stunned ...
Is it then ready at 13.30 ??? ( that was an hour from now ( I was there at 10.00 ... )
And he said yes.
So I came back an hour later and ...
I got a visa but only for 21 days.
Now I had to find another new balance, travelling slow but still going fast huh hahaha.
But I will not hurry anymore, if I cannot make it in three weeks I take a bus !
Planning to visit Kano and Jos, some nice cities.
But first tomorrow, I will leave Niamey and go to Koure or Kourou, forgot the name ...
It's a place where some of the last giraffes live here, and they must be very tame, look forward to it !
Oh, and I bought some new shoes, second hand but almost brand new for only 15 euro !
The brand ?
Make an educated guess
donderdag 23 december 2010 om 21:38
donderdag 23 december 2010 om 21:44
Hij komt rond juni terug Vin.
Hij heeft jaren geleden zijn huis goed kunnen verkopen en is in een stacaravan gaan wonen. Die stacaravan verhuurt hij in de zomer en gaat dan zelf in een tentje op een camping wonen, zodoende haalt hij zijn jaarlijkse stageld er uit en woont dus gratis
Als hij terug komt zoekt hij weer werk, als hij weer weg gaat neemt hij ontslag. Hij heeft een goeie opleiding waarmee hij in de haven- en vervoerswereld tot nu toe altijd direct aan de slag kon.
Ja ja... het is een slimmerT die broer van mij
Hij heeft jaren geleden zijn huis goed kunnen verkopen en is in een stacaravan gaan wonen. Die stacaravan verhuurt hij in de zomer en gaat dan zelf in een tentje op een camping wonen, zodoende haalt hij zijn jaarlijkse stageld er uit en woont dus gratis
Als hij terug komt zoekt hij weer werk, als hij weer weg gaat neemt hij ontslag. Hij heeft een goeie opleiding waarmee hij in de haven- en vervoerswereld tot nu toe altijd direct aan de slag kon.
Ja ja... het is een slimmerT die broer van mij