28 November 2008

I’m here, but my luggage is somewhere else in the world :-(

Ok! I’ve arrived. My luggage, however, I have no idea where in the world it ended up. Maybe it heard that Johannesburg is a very dangerous city and got scared of being stolen. Hopefully they’ll find it tomorrow, otherwise I really don’t know how I’ll manage.
I haven’t really seen anything of the city. Tomorrow I’ll take a walk in the centre, but I don’t think it’s very nice. As soon as the luggage arrives (if it does…) I’ll head to Maputo.

Ah, something strange happened on the plane on the Rome–Athens flight. There was a group of Panathinaikos fans, completely drunk (I don’t know if they were returning from a match or just from a trip) who almost started a fight in mid-air between themselves.
Some were seated in the front and others in the back. They started insulting each other and at one point they rushed towards the middle of the plane to hit each other.
We tried to stop them but there wasn’t much we could do, so in the end they ended up clashing, with only a chubby flight attendant in between. Miraculously, no punches were thrown and after a while they went back to their seats, continuing to shout insults and Greek threats at each other, until the whole scene repeated again.
They kept getting up and meeting in the middle of the plane, then being pulled back again, over and over for the whole flight. I don’t even know how many times. I’ve been on many flights, but I’ve never seen anything like it.

26 November 2008

Let's go!! :-)

Ok guys! I’m heading to Southern Africa ✈️

It wasn’t an easy decision to quit my job, especially with all this “crisis” talk going around. But as I already said on Facebook, I don’t make decisions based on Wall Street trends or little-bourgeois fears (like the risk of not finding another job... mmmh, what a terrible thing: to be free from office slavery forever!! 😄).

And honestly, as far as I can see, “crisis” has always been around us, and probably always will be, for both poor and wealthy people alike.

So... follow me on this adventure 😉

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