Today began with our first exam of the trip. Pretty tough and I'm not sure whether I passed it. It won't be corrected for a while anyway. TIA or time in Africa as they call it here.
We headed to a Bush pub for the night called “in Da Bos,“ which in Afrikaans means “In the Bush.” It was the strangest pub I’ve ever been in and I’ve been in a few strange pubs in my time. The bar was built on sticks and it is built beside a watering hole where huge Croc’s and Hippo live. Not a place where you’d want to go and relieve yourself in a drunken stupor I can tell ya!! The bar owner was a seriously mountainy man and I know a few mountainy bar owners! It was like something out of the film Deliverance and I was seriously waiting for some mental case to crank up on the Banjo!
The craic was mighty though and the guys all got steaming drunk. I volunteered to be the “Dessie,” for the night so no scoops for me. We played a bit of pool and made sure we got well fed! College food is not great and to be honest the we are always hungry. Anyway after destroying a nice bit of steak and chips we finished off the night with a few rounds of “ Jaeger Bombs, “ and headed home.
In Africa you don’t stop on the roads for anyone even if they have a flashing light on top of the car. With this in mind, we came to a car broken down with a seriously dodgy looking guy standing to the side of the car. I decided to gun the car on the other side of the road. Anybody who has seen the film “Tsotsi,” will know what I mean. In Africa red lights and men standing on the side of the road mean go!!
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