Greetings from East Africa |
Personal Vicissitudes |
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Title | Created | Contents | |
Departure | 120711 | What job did Miss Eunice tell you to do today? | |
Another me, another Africa | 120709 | I did not see it coming | |
Closing A Leak Part 4 | 120707 | Delay: Birthday prolonged one full second | |
Closing A Leak Part 3 | 120628 | Distractions by Uganda Immigration and the Netherlands tax authority's paper mailing computer | |
Closing A Leak Part 2 | 120614 | Distractions by Nature and Philosophy | |
Closing A Leak Part 1 | 120605 | Following the no-Africans protocol | |
The Flying Dutchman Explained | 120527 | An experimental contribution to the history of navigation | |
The math of Hollande's gender constraint | 120516 | Not read on BBC | |
Marine Certification | 120515 | Undergoing regulatory purification | |
Total Chaos | 120423 | Undergoing biological purification | |
The Day of Truth | 120405 | Nasty, or Spinoza about Falsity | |
Dutch Car Handling Technology | 120302 | Introducing Contemporary Dutch Culture by Example | |
The Netherlands | 120301 | 1566-2012 | |
Spinoza Ethica | 120127 | "I Read And Understood Spinoza Ethica completely" | |
Extremely miscellaneous news | 120116 | Spinoza, a thief's remorse, artistic breakthrough postponed etc. etc | |
A New Mast | 120101 | Profiting from experience | |
The Weirdest Blog | 111126 | ....Ever... | |
Nairobi #11 | 111107 | Granuloma Annulare | |
Closing the hull | 111026 | U-turn Journal #10 | |
Porridge and a 32 ton jack | 111022 | U-turn Journal #9 | |
Harbour Life #4 | 111016 | Some steps forward and some backward | |
This Failed (for now) | 111002 | U-turn Journal #8 | |
The Sanitary Complex | 110930 | U-turn Journal #7 | |
The Forecastle | 110928 | U-turn Journal #6 | |
Nairobi #9 | 110812 | "You are less useful than at previous visits" | |
The U-Turn Journal #5 | 110806 | Cabins and Kiswahili | |
Return | 110608 | With King Dom I, II and III | |
Last Banda Trip? | 110702 | Decay Lost Supervisor | |
Bert 60 | 110701 | Welcoming The Inevitable | |
The U-Turn Journal #4 | 110523 | Water & Tarping | |
Harbour Life #3 | 110523 | Shed on the work list, snake on the menu | |
Dom dead | 110508 | "The government must be behind it" | |
Cardiovicissitudes | 110507 | Approaching 60 | |
The U-Turn Journal #3 | 110325 | Sese Island Wood hunt | |
"You Should Have Been Here!" | 110317 | Nairobi #7 | |
Zanziiiii! | 110310 | The Harem Before and After The Bombardment | |
Harbour Life #2 | 110309 | Straight And Square | |
Elections | 110308 | Candidates, Voters and Embassies | |
Cats&Monkeys | 110207 | Great Fun | |
The U-Turn Journal 2011#2 | 101231 | Coming off the Drawing Board | |
Rats and Cats | 101226 | And the rest of us | |
Back In Town | 101122 |
Tilburg Amazing? Yes! - to Africans |
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Rain | 101031 | Flushing Kampala | |
Harbour Life: You Are Not Alone | 101030 | We fly, run, swim and think (to be updated regularly) | |
Douglas | 101023 | Zzzziiiiiissss izzzzz how you are taaaoooohhhhwkin | |
The U-Turn Journal 2011#1 | 101005 | Drawing Table | |
101004 | |||
The U-turn | 101004 | ||
The Family | 101003 | Stay in touch for party announcements... | |
Roland | 101002 | My Kampala Gabriel | |
Garuga Entebbe Kampala Sese Kampala | 100930 | The Most Beautiful Failed Sales Show Trip Ever | |
Redoing the Rigg | 100905 | Size matters! | |
Mukusu, rare birds and cobra | 100823 | More patching | |
100817 | Google Earth paste: 0.074795� 32.535267� | ||
100711 | MTN-Orange: 1-50, Allahu Akbar | ||
100701 | Indeed | ||
100605 | Nairobi High End Golf Clinic | ||
100408 | My final bid to leave a decent impression frustrated | ||
100404 | A stand-in farm keeper's life | ||
100328 | Keep It Goin'! | ||
100309 | How Can They Give You 21 Police Checks For $65 only? | ||
100219 | Toggle "Shower" and "No Eyes": 30 seconds | ||
100218 | Lugazi, Uganda | ||
100214 | 2003, 2006,2010 | ||
100201 | In Theory and Anecdote | ||
100120 | Napoleon and Benjamin Constant about democracy | ||
100115 | Napoleon in 13 days from Elba back to French emperorship | ||
091228 | On Ambitions And Their Strings Attached | ||
09122 | We Do Not Reply To Claims Our Title Is Faulty | ||
091124 | Little heaven at JP Cuttings | ||
091114 | 8: Sick, Stuck and Stinking | ||
091022 | Contrasts between Continents | ||
090809 | Nsereko Rorens Back To The Shore | ||
090805 | The Best of Nsereko Rorens | ||
090720 | "Do you have this thing for wind to push the canoe..." | ||
090716 | "This is GOOD!... tsjubtsjubtsjubtsjub..." | ||
090714 | My first 24 hours with a 12 year old orphan wanderer | ||
090708 | Fish catch 36% down in three years | ||
090706 | "Can I wear this?" | ||
090618 | Some more work and back to the Nile | ||
090529 | Blessings of Civilization | ||
090506 | What you could do... | ||
090505 | "Did you see my ball?" | ||
090412 | Subject: with every end comes new begining | ||
090403 | Cap neck pieces, marine dogs and another tornado | ||
090310 | Bonaparte returns from Egypt | ||
090206 | Private appendix to Wikipedia | ||
090118 | For The Same Money! | ||
081231 | Malaria, Misty Looks But No Leaks | ||
090101 | Peep round at a tiny tropical rainforest island on the equator | ||
081229 | Goats carcasses on the beach | ||
081225 | Progress Is Unstoppable, And So Is Degeneration | ||
081208 | Progress Is Unstoppable, And So Is Degeneration | ||
081204 | Running In Front Of A Machine Gun | ||
081128 | Climbing the Beach of Banda Island...With a Dhow! | ||
081126 | How To Hire A Caulker And Get Him Where You Want | ||
081123 | Concise overview of the "Greetings" subweb | ||
081105 | Previously dispersed remarks on one page and improved | ||
081105 | 60 km in 4 days... | ||
081023 | Cas climbs on Board! | ||
Nile Source Updates 2 | 081016 | Gale 12, a 13000 km bike ride and some tennis | |
Nile Source Updates | 080924 | What we see and what we do | |
Marseille | 080716 | Europe "Marseillais, pas Francais!" | |
Old Age and New Times | 080710 | 57 in Europe Part 2, From Bad to Worse and Back Again | |
French Alpine Joys | 080710 | 57 in Europe Part 1 | |
Fear | 080622 | Europe: Parasailing in thermals after 4 years | |
Dhow for sale | 080311 | Chance in a lifetime!!!!!!! | |
Storms | 080220 | Some Pictures of Storms & cet. | |
Banda Xmas 2007 | 080101 | King Dom and The Invasion of Sicily | |
Sisters, Super Models and Theft | 071211 | Heading for Our Second Banda Xmas | |
The Canoe Sails! | 071121 | Spreading Tanzanian sailing Hi-Tech | |
Big Round | 070813 | Photo Diary of a Sailing Dhow Trip Around Lake Victoria | |
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Preparations for the Big Round | 070813 | Crew, Communications, Money Logistics, Defense |
My head illegal? | 070624 |
Applying for a new Dutch passport: my head illegal according to The New Dutch Passport Photo Model Matrix? A cliff hanging story. |
Doing nothing Part II | 070617 |
New wisdoms: moderately spice your doing nothing with some color movement on your retina, joy and irritation |
Commander on Safari | 070427 |
Egypt, Netherlands, Southern France, Turkey |
Philemon | 070221 |
Deputy Captain, Saa Moja |
Dhow Repairs | 061227 |
In love with a tree |
Christmas | 061225 |
Rain, vomiting, fever, breaking dhow parts, cancellations and the difference between Coke and Pepsi |
A Summary Guide To Banda Island | 061203 |
With maps and recommended strolls |
Banda revisited | 061202 |
Second visit to Banda (First) |
Fighting Shit | 061020 | Some improvements of the dhow deck tarpaulin, "Baafu Mzungu", Steering deck roof, solar panel capacity, electric bailing, waterproof storage, deck stiffening, new GPS |
Doi | 061011 |
Our boat boy, my Kiswahili teacher |
Grandfather | 061002 | My father's visit Nederlandse versie |
Sese Islands | 060918 |
First visit to Sese archipelago Island Banda: dhow meets dhow |
Guests! | 060915 |
Our very first guests |
Depression Battle | 060915 |
Down and up again at 0o24'37.7"N 33o11'31.7E 1140m |
Test Trip Part 2 | 060622 |
Honesty requires a les flattering evening later update of this trip |
Test Trip | 060621 |
Sounds and pictures straight from here and now Lake Victoria. |
Tanzanian Reflections | 060613 |
Killing the BPP |
Doi Arrives | 060608 |
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They Do Not Even Know How to Steal | 060530 |
How They Do In Their Specialty |
Nile Source Life | 060529 | You Are Not Alone! |
The Dhow | 060522 |
Technical Data In Final State |
Closing The Deck | 060519 |
Just A Drip. Dessert Of The GOOD LORD: One Of His More Potent VAC's. The End Of The Dhow Building Logbook |
Jonathan | 060510 |
Just A Drip. An African Carpenter |
Malaria and A-fib | 060429 |
Rather Wet Neck Again. It Pleases The GOOD LORD To Haunt The Commander With Diseases. The Advent Of Philemon |
Problem Shooting | 060417 | Dry Feet Not Too Wet Neck. BPP Introduced, Mooring Off Shore |
Finishing the dhow | 060412 | Dry Feet Wet Neck. "GT" Ben unleashed. Buying A Canoe, Big NEMA's, Other Defecational Incidents And The Advent Of Carpenter Jonathan |
"Kazi imemaliza" | 060401 | Wet Feet, Wet Neck. "The job is finished": TZ crew out. |
To Jinja | 060326 | Final Laps Of The 300 Km Lake Trip Of Unfinished Dhow |
Kidnapped | 060323 | Dessert of the TZ menu: operation of Tanzania Police "Mr. Malima & His Camp": kidnapped by TZ police, ransom demanded |
Off To Joseph | 060319 | My "Backpackers' camp between Masaka and the Tanzanian border |
Remote Head Quarters Jinja | 060309 | Back in Jinja. Email, SMS and phone circus. Computer breakdown, medicine withdrawal symptoms, gadgets and golf. No boat. |
Banned | 060303 | Chief Mwanza Immigration Officer, District Commissioner and probably Regional Commissioner all unaware.... |
Putting The Mast | 060228 | Released by police but "keep your cell phone switched on", agreeable company of a remarkable German couple |
Hacked | 060222 | Mindphiles.com/greetings Turkish hacked by Metlak |
Jailed | 060221 | Arrested At Gunpoint and Jailed by Mwanza Police On Request Of Mwanza Immigration |
Finishing The Deck | 060220 | Fitting The Deck Planks |
Making Mast and Gaff | 060212 | And renewed immigration harassment, and making the palm mat sunroof |
Making The Sail | 060211 | Hand made, christian ground use fee avoided |
Lake Shore Life | 060209 | The local village divided about how best to milk us |
Reaching The Shore | 060207 | The Gate Of Heaven |
Launching | 060205 | A Work Of God |
Last Preparations For Launching | 060204 | A Crane Or Not A Crane, That Is The Question |
Author Before Tribunal | 060128 | Kamkala Soap #10, Kamkala Soap Home |
Triangle Operetta: Curtain | 060128 | Shire polyhedron mounted |
Laying The Keel | 060125 | A bit late....Two teams at work, money down |
The Kamkala Soap Index Page | 060123 | Kamkala Soap Home |
The Letter | 060123 | Kamkala Soap Home |
Rain Yes, Brains No, Planer May Be | 060120 | In which even just drilling is a problem, the author needs explanation of the African meaning of rain, and brings the town's best shipyard's planer back in operation. |
Saa Moja | 060113 | The author as acting shipyard boss. This suspiciously looks like working |
My Shopping Centre | 060108 | Unfortunately newly equipped with a video tent |
Pseumonia, Police and Productive Paranoia | 051231 | Good Luck: hitting on the right threat. Amazing ertia |
Despair and Depression | 051228 | They built me a matchbox |
Why Tanzania is a Serious Country | 051213 | I need a "Job" and a "Visa". Who the hell taught them about these things? |
Back in Shipyard supplies | 051212 | Dhow inspection 2: The thing moves like a snake! |
051201 | My sincere apologies to the donkeys and monkeys for sometimes following the primitive habit of humans to associate them with the three most prominent characteristics of their own kind: Stupidity, Selfishness and Greed | |
Arrested | 051130 | Arrest ends in laudatio |
Wrong Screws, No Wood | 051126 | Angel founders and falls: The reverend's carpentry work halted: wrong screws, no wood, no money, fear of imprisonment at the ship yard |
Greeneye | 051120 | A remarkable cat |
Gabriel Descends From Heaven | 051120 | A reverend arrives on the scene of the dhow yard |
The Mother Of Doldrums | 051117 | Dhow Yard boss Daniel enters the orange zone without further delay |
Mwanza from above | 051105 | Three Bird's Eye Views of Mwanza |
Drying a Yard: Grand Finale | 051101 | Lawyers into play, a new contract with details, time table and wittness, and money paid (the end of drying) |
A Memorable Lake Trip | 051016 | How my box on the ear of a little thug put my guests off and left the hired dhow and its crew for me alone |
Money Stolen | 051015 | Kamkala Soap #7 Kamkala Soap Home |
The Miraculous Return Of My Money | 051004 | An End To Wetting The Wrong Yard |
Nataka pesa ("I need money") | 051003 | How to put African economic theory in practice? |
Dhow Pictures | 050922 | No words... |
050920 | Dhow building stagnation, good for my Kiswahili. Author on the edge of craziness, but finally starts cutting Kiswahili verbs like fresh French baguettes (and suddenly finds himself in control of his piano) | |
Wetting A Yard (The Wrong One) | 050907 | My dhow money involuntarily invested in another ship |
Money Unavailable | 050901 | Kees will give me my money "end of next week" Kamkala Soap Home |
Drying A Yard | 050831 | To stop a yard doing nothing, it should be broke first |
Classical African Business Doldrums | 050831 | The Desert Of Indolence, Lies And False Promises |
Isamilo Life | 050901 | My Life at one of Mwanza's hilltops overlooking the bay Kamkala Soap Home |
Dhow Diving Down The Line Of Perfect Inertia | 050809 | Working like nuts and amazing progress on dhows and Kiswahili |
Dhow Yard Revisited | 050804 | Pictures of my dhow in statu nascendi |
Finding a house | 050803 | Isamilo is my place in Mwanza as long as the dhow is on land Kamkala Soap Home |
Unexpected logistical node at Bukoba | 050801 | Ferry Bukoba-Mwanza: its crane is broken, it takes no cars |
Nomad logistics | 050729 | Nomad life looks easy, but it isn't if you have scattered property stores |
Vous n'�tes pas dans le bon sens l�! (Europe revisited 2) | 050613 | Rolling cabin of 3.20 m meets 2.4 m tunnel at midnight in pouring rain in Lyon |
Europe revisited | 050612 | Game Park Europe where you see its citizens in their natural habitat |
Playing the Wrong Song (my expulsion from 2 Friends | 050528 | Yes, indeed, though you may not believe it: how I was expelled from my house for playing a song which did not please the son of one of the owners of 2 Friends restaurant |
Cutting and Planning | 050524 | Finally: wood! Reassuring enthusiasm among my people |
Mwanza Yacht club and Hotel Tilapia | 050516 | Surprising luxury at the Mwanza shore side |
All about mninga wood | 050513 | A beautiful tropical wood, too hard for the wood boring lake insects |
Day Zero: No Train, No wood and Malaria | 050511 | Deadline for wood delivery violated, client on drip in hospital |
Screws, maps but still no wood | 050509 | Mysterious wood and screw price quotations and hard too believe stories |
No Wood | 050502 | An adventurous inquiry into mysteriously long delays in wood delivery |
Haipa Killed by School Bus | 050328 | Asshole with school bus refuses to pull his brakes for Haipa |
Move to Two Friends restaurant Boys Quarters | 050316 | Real size dhow training for watchdogs, only the Lake is a restaurant with a lovely refuse dump |
Illegal | 050101 | Business trip from Jinja to Mwanza, meant to start building a sailing dhow, ends underground |
The Best Yard in Town | 050101 | A second round along the shipyards with second thoughts |
Exploration and a False Start | 050101 | Finding the right town but the wrong shipyard to build a dhow |
Maersk (bringing in your stuff) | 050101 | Importing your personal effects. Experience of an naive immigrant to East Africa with Maersk Kampala and the Uganda Customs Authority. How "government officials" do everything they can to prevent the economic development of their countries. |
The Problem and the Idea | 050101 | How I got the idea of living on a dhow on Lake Victoria |
Getting set for Uganda | 050101 | A summary account of how my life led to my emigration to Africa |
Groeten (Dutch language predecessor home page) |