On the road again...

After a lovely week back home in Denmark with my family, I am once again on the road. This time I'm in Zambia to conduct training and hand-over a system we have built for COMESA. I've been to Zambia twice before and always enjoy coming here as it is clean and people are friendly. Anyways, I still hope this will be must last trip this year as I really need to spend some time at home with my family.

Note: If you are planning on going to Zambia I can highly recommend staying at the Intercontinental. At my first visit I was staying at Holiday-Inn. The food and service was excellent but the rooms were terrible!

Finalised my mission in Djibouti and Kenya

Today, I finalised my mission to Djibouti and Kenya. I've still got another three days until I'm back home, but at least my work is done. While in Djibouti I carried out four days of System Administration training for the Web Portal I'm putting into place. That was followed by a one day steering committee meeting and four days workshop on Portal Management in Nairobi. It has been a very exhausting trip as I caught a food poisoning in Djibouti two days after having arrived. The food poisoning persisted until yesterday (almost a week) after which I had to go see a doctor. Fortunately, Nairobi Hospital is located just opposite the venue where I was conducting the workshop. So after having consulted a doctor and taken a few samples, I was given some medicine that would hope initially until they had time to examine my samples. So, today I got a call from the doctor explaining that I had a fungus growing in my stomach that was developing into a yest infection. I was then given some antibiotica and now feeling very fine. However, the last week was hell. Imagine having to do presentation from morning till afternoon with a constant stomach ache and having to run off to the wash room after every meal. Anyways, it is now being treated and I'm feeling much better.

Besides my illness I got to talk and meet some wonderful people from around Eastern Africa. Tomorrow morning I'm off to Dubai where I'll spend one day before heading home to the family! Traveling can be very tiring and stressful when you'd rather spend time with your wife and baby.

That's all for now folks.

Dubai is hot!!

Dubai is hot, in more than one sense. I'm currently on my way to Djibouti to finalise some work on a project. On my way I stopped in Dubai for two days as I've always been curious about the place. I was very pleasantly surprised as people were nice, the place was clean, and the city was beautiful!

The real hotness though is the weather. I couldn't help laughing when I saw the sticker on the window in my hotel room.



It says "WARNING - Humidity from outside may activate the fire alarm". I can testify to the hotness (between 40 and 50 degrees celcius) as I spent a whole day on the top deck of a Big Bus tour around Dubai (if you only got a day in Dubai I would strongly suggest the Big Bus Tour - it' is excellent!).

Of all the places I've been I'd give it a 9 out of 10.

That's all for now - I'm off to Djibouti in a few minutes.