My view on the places and people I meet along the way and especially on myself
It took us a while to get out of Khartoum since getting Diesel is a problem right now (only on the black market or waiting in a queue that seems to not move at all). The rough goal was to go to Al-Ubayyid (or Al Obeid) and via Kosti back to Khartoum.
Continue reading “Beware of dates!”
Finally we left Khartoum. It’s fine to spend a night or two in the capitol but then I need to get out.
We drove up north into the desert. Well, you don’t have to drive far away from the Nile in order to encounter barren lands but still the desert is another thing altogether. However, there is no one desert. It has many shapes.
Continue reading “Like desert, like people…many beautiful faces”
How do you travel these times? The adventure starts already before you fly or even pack. I had to find a health center that would give me a PCR test in English. While the Bavarian government pays Covid-19 tests they obviously don’t pay for an English version. Initially, I had to find one that was open on the weekend as I wanted to fly Monday (that changed). The one at the München airport costs 130 EUR, whereas the on in Nürnberg only 70 EUR (obviously my choice). Then you wait for the results and hope that it is negative, which always makes me smile because that is positive 😉
Are we living in unprecedented times? No, not at all. Names change. This has happened many times before. Maybe not to us though. And even that is not true 100%.
I had to rewrite this post several times in order to reflect the current situation. Hope this will go out in time.
I am already in (or rather the end of) week 4 of this trip, which is very different from what I thought it might be (as it is for the rest of the world). But I will come back to this later. Let me first start with the itinerary of last week.