(posted by Janine)
Sorry: we haven’t been very active in writing lately. Part of the reason is that we have been very happy getting friends over, and of course we needed to spend all our spare (non-working) hours with them. We got the most out of it: biking through all the poor and rich neighbourhoods of town, showing them Kigali’s nightlife (and dancing moves!) and spending lovely hours at the lakeside with great swimming, grilled fish and evening-fires.
Sorry: we haven’t been very active in writing lately. Part of the reason is that we have been very happy getting friends over, and of course we needed to spend all our spare (non-working) hours with them. We got the most out of it: biking through all the poor and rich neighbourhoods of town, showing them Kigali’s nightlife (and dancing moves!) and spending lovely hours at the lakeside with great swimming, grilled fish and evening-fires.
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| BBQ at our house: Dennis, Tine, Mikkel, Laetitia, Mikkel |
Our first ‘visiting team’ were Tine and Mikkel, who spent 3 weeks in Rwanda. I am pretty sure they saw more of the country than either of us (or perhaps any other tourist) ever did. We had a great time with bbq's, rwandan-style aerobics and varagi-gin tonic. We also spent a super relaxing weekend at the lake together, 3hours from Kigali.
The next ‘team’ –all the way from Holland- were Melchior and Jeroen, who came with a mission: visiting DRC Congo (to climb this volcano). Although Mikkel and I were able to get a visa in Kigali (not without trouble, but hey –it’s Africa), the others were told by the Congolese embassy to get their 285-dollar-visa at the border. But this was easier said than done. We ended up spending 6 long, hot and hungry hours at the border … without success!
