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News – March/April 2011 (Colombo/Sri Lanka, April 4th, 2011)
- Website statistics: In March we were able to welcome 45'768 visitors who did 1'637'151 hits, according to 'Webalizer'.
- 'Google-Analytics' showed 40'977 Pageviews during the same period. The visitors are from ~178 countries!
- (February = 39'259 visitors – 1'426'954 Hits / January = 47'626 visitors – 1'694'464 Hits)
- ('Google-Analytics': February = 37'072 Pageviews / January = 46'197 Pageviews / 209 countries)
- Record day since 12/17/1998 = the birthday of our website: on 11/5/2007 = 13'407 visitors and 787'456 hits
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- When our "News Update – February 2011"
was published on
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- "breeze" – which could have worked out that way if we obliged to all the desires – but it became five tough days of waiting. On
- March 11th, shortly before the start of the weekend, finally we were allowed to leave the port of Colombo.
- Because we knew already way back that a German journalist will arrive five days later who would accompany us during some days, we
- remained in Colombo though we knew it already quite well – there is anyway not that much to see. Emil realized that his knees start
- causing more and more problems what made him go to a doctor and have an x-ray made. In between, we were able to complete the
- pictures from our Philippines trip, thus the islands of Cebu and Bohol are now also online.
- After the arrival of our guest we took off for our first overland "adventure" into the interior of the island, sitting three in the front. Despite
- of the chaotic road traffic, everything was running normally, as expected. But shortly after our new friend's departure, troubles appeared
- on the horizon: Even if the x-rays didn't show any exceptional anomalies the pain in the knees intensified. Simultaneously we had to learn
- that our computer went on strike: Shortly after the startup it started to freeze. With a lot of efforts and a "rescue program" we were able
- to save all the uncopied data and reloading the operating system. Afterwards it was time to download all the programs and program-
- updates from the internet – broadband access in Sri Lanka cannot be compared with the one used in the USA! In between Emil got
- various medications, which unfortunately didn't help yet.
- At least we could start preparing the 174 selected pictures and legends from our Socotra trip, as well as the 48 from the U.A.E.. But
- more difficulties showed up and our planned departure was averted: On March 31st, Emil caught the Dengue Fever, which he contracted
- presumably by a mosquito bite on a lake in the interior of the island. At least on the 5th day, he was able to write the "News". We hope
- for the understanding that firstly many emails couldn't get replied yet and that secondly our website had a time of very low activities.
- Hence we try our very best to satisfy everything; because – as weird as it might be – we have already to prepare our departure and at
- the same time the entrance into our next country, though we didn't really set off touring Sri Lanka yet.
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| The visit of 14 Pacific Islands with and 1 without our LandCruiser | Pacific (Febr. 2008-Jan. 2010 + Aug.-Sept. 2010) |
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| The visit of 13 Caribbean Islands with our LandCruiser | Caribbean (June 2003-Dec. 2004) |
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| + added from the United Arab Emirates: | Fairytale Wedding in Dubai (March 1999) |
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| + added from a earlier visit to the USA: | Las Vegas (Millennium change) |
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| + added from our Arabian Peninsula round trip: | Pictures from Yemen (May-June 1996) |
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| + Flashbacks of our Worldrecordtour: | Pictures from "all the continents" (Oct. 1984 - April 1997) |
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