J-5

Here we go again !!!

In 5 days M and I are saying goodbye to Finland as we jet off to exotic Bremen. From here we'll take a train to Köln airport, meeting up with our Ruben, our travel buddy for the first 2 weeks, on the way. From here, we'll leave everything we know behind for however long we can, and the next time we touch the ground will be in Cairo International Airport.

M and I get on very well in general except when we travel and have conflicting ideas on what to do next. In the hope of avoiding such scenarios we've assigned an honorary President to each country.

Egypt - Directed by Special Guest Rubén Carralero Celis
Sudan - "Evil" T
Ethiopia - with a nose like the Ras Dashen, it's T
Djibouti - Small and expensive - it's M
Somaliland - People think he's dangerous, but he's not - it's T
Kenya - Wild Animal M
Uganda - M's Resistance Army
Rwanda - "I can't make a joke about this which isn't bad taste, even for me" T
Burundi - The heart shaped country is run by the man with the big heart - T
Tanzania - The land of explosive volcanoes - M
Malawi - Small and sweet - M
Mozambique - Big and gangly - T
Swaziland - Directed by absolute rule by a polygamist - who else ? It's T
South Africa - With an odd number of countries on our list, we were bound to have one left over. Hence here we are both in charge. There will be some colourful language in the "rainbow nation"
Madagascar - Bringing in our 2nd Special Guest - Simon "The Bat" Sheridan will be hunting lemurs with us.
Lesotho - Taking you higher than ever before... M
Namibia - Hot hot hot. M
Botswana - Hotter hotter hotter. M again.
Zimbabwe - Doesn't have 2 cents to rub together and collapses on regular occasions... it's T
Zambia - "The Smoke That Thunders" - M
Congo-Kinshasa - Big, Bad and Dangerous to Know - T
Congo-Brazzaville - Who ??? T, apparently
Gabon - Africa's biggest champagne consumers. So appropriately enough... M
Cameroon - T can use this time to think of funnier jokes for the next trip.
Nigeria - Africa's anarchic centre of activity. Who else ? It's M

And after that.... who knows ?