Cas To The Mainland
 Blessings of Civilization

On the 21st of May sunset we entered Entebbe's East bay,observed by Maarten, who took a host of dhow photos that I turned into an animation

Suddenly we got fed up with Banda. I had an interview with Dom, with pen and paper, and the result was this:  K'la Restaurants A. Superior Quality, Overpriced: Le Chateau, European haute cuisine, K'la South near American Embassy Khazaana, fucking expensive curries from golf course take road up to Kisementi: opposite Bubbles Mammamia, Italian food, try the smoked tilapia pizza, formerly great ice cream recently a bit down, pray for the best. La Bonita, Pride Theatre behind Speke Hotel, lunch time buffet Mamba Point, Italian, Nakasero, near Makerere University Serena hotel Saterday to Thursday, near golf course go North from Garden City B. Top Quality, money for value: Serena Hotel,  Friday buffet, emphasis on sea food!, near golf course go North from Garden City, Zan Zi Bar, Ntinda NorthEast of Kampala, then ask bodobodo, the best burnt pork on a stick in East Africa, Steaks Le Petty Bistro, Gaba Road, Ranchers, Excellent Steak, Garden City, businessmen's  lunch, bring your own mayonaise and stay away from salad bar Curries Indian Summer, near Italian Supermarket, 99% of Khaazana quality, 25% of price Masala Chat, opposite National Theatre, good! Japanese Wasabi, Mayenga Hill Italian Bugolobi Shell Station, towards Red Chili, ask bodobodo Ethiopian Restaurant Kabalagala, on regular days: buffet Chinese Fang Fang, 1. near Christ King Cathedral, 2. Hotel on the way from Sheraton down to the golf course Ice Cream Zinello, opp. Telca bar Kabalagala Italian Supermarket, near Indian Summer.

We hesitated before this restaurant near the Kampala bus park but decided to work some more on our cultural integration before taking it on.

Right to left: Maarten, Willemien, Cas and me, Middle foreground: reblochon and p�t�!

Maarten en Willemien's puppy Jimmy has a rest with Cas before having a go on my sunglasses

Late night return from beach to dhow. Philemon, rear, after his first three hours of sleep...

Same personnel, after some royal curries at 4 Points Entebbe, and a decent load of dry white wines from a home-filled under-table cooler

Interesting cross-cultural combats d'honneur between Philemon and Cas concerning who should sit on the second deck chair led to me having comfortable foot-support

Our Huawei D100 battle: waiting for our friend 李赟

[contination of D100 story] 李赟 told us that Hewett International Limited, through Amazon internet shopping, had sent us to Uganda a D100 router locked for an English provider called "3", who probably gave them away for free to its new customers. He said he could not unlock it (which we did not believe), but was ready to exchange it for an unlocked version, which worked!, so to our regret our MTN modem did not have to be unlocked. We realized we could not ask a Huawei man to confess he was able unlock it let alone persuade him to do it for us, but there is a growing number of internet sites claiming to know the procedure and have the software. We hope to break out of the MTN prison soon!
Just hours after posting a one star ("aweful") feedback on Amazon we got a call from Hewitt UK gently massaging us into getting it off. The representative claimed that we should have read "compatible with 3" as "only compatible with 3". He sounded quite sorry and unhappy, yes, in distress, so we decided to make his day and offer to erase the feedback. Though we do not know if they are going to change anything, this event greatly enhanced our confidence in the Amazon internet purchase system! Just for this feedback valve one might consider even to buy a little more expensive through Amazon products that could be purchased directly from the seller's web site!