Björn in Southern Africa
Posted in Botswana on Dec 21st, 2008
After three magnificient months of work, crazy trips, amazing friends and enjoying the summer of Africa I have to went back tomorrow to cold and icy Germany for celebrating chrismas… and I still cannot imaging how it will be: thirty degress less and with rain in greyish Munich and Berlin. I really enjoyed my time [...]
Posted in Botswana on Dec 15th, 2008
After GTZ office here realized an amazing year of projects and activities this weekend time-building was scheduled in the Kuthse-desert. Several games-drives were done but somehow Kuthse did not liked us, we saw very rarely animals not in the afternoon nor in the early (!) morning drive but spot a gepard and no lions. Botswana [...]
Posted in Botswana on Dec 15th, 2008
When I arrived in Gaborone our garden showed almost no green and no flowers and it was quite depressing but after the rain from last weeks it totally changed. Our garden is amazing green and blossom all around, now it makes fun to use the swimming-pool and enjoy life over there. But as you see [...]
Posted in Botswana on Dec 5th, 2008
Since several years I was just organising journalism workshops, trainings and congresses on German and European level and build up even networks in Jordan and Afghanistan but I lacked always the time to constantly write own articles. That changed here in Africa and I took the chance to experience work as foreign correspondent with the [...]
Posted in Botswana on Dec 2nd, 2008
Sometimes live is crazy and from day to day more doors opening up. Thanks to an invitation of the Plenary Assembly of the SADC Parliamentarian Forum Martin and me went last week up to Arusha in Tanzania to attend the meeting of sixty parliamentarians of thirteen countries from SADC region, including of course Zimbabwe or [...]
Posted in Botswana on Dec 1st, 2008
Everybody we talked to before arriving in Maputo recommand us to go to the local fish market because there you could pay your fresh fish direct from the fishermen and on the opposite side the restaurants are preparing the fish in 30min for your dinner. This experience was really great and an hour later we [...]
Posted in Botswana on Dec 1st, 2008
After departing from LICOM-meeting we were supposed to get to Maputo (Mozambique) to follow-up our interview tour but all went different then expacted because our formal invitation to Plenary Assembly of SADC Parliamentarian Forum arrived and also our flights were finally scheduled on Sunday. So after Christian came back from his extensive trip through the [...]