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News – September/October 2013 (Praia/Cape Verde, October 31st, 2013)
- Website statistics: Unfortunately 'Webalizer' has been shut down definitively in February. 'Logaholic' is the current counter.
- 'Logaholic' shows now the following figures in September: 19'134 visits / 77'628 pages
- 'Google-Analytics' showed 23'938 pageviews during September. The visitors come from ~221 countries!
- ('Logaholic' August 17'293 visits / 83'526 pages; July 17'804 visits / 77'584 pages)
- ('Google-Analytics': August = 24'701 pageviews / July = 23'582 pageviews)
- Record day since 12/17/1998 = the birthday of our website: on 11/5/2007 = 13'407 visitors and 787'456 hits ('Webalizer')
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- Our visit of Europe didn't last long – 35 days respectively 618 miles. It had various reasons: Firstly the climate wasn't anymore so friendly – a
- cold spell from Russia caused already beginning of September low temperatures and ugly weather, which – to put it mildly – made our camping life
- considerably more difficult. With the existing price level in the Ukraine and in Moldova – not to speak of the European one – we asked ourselves
- whether it's not preferrable to spend our retirement pension in a region that is climatically more favored. Although we felt that both European
- countries (Ukraine and Moldova) are neat and worth visiting, we couldn't compare them with the Caucasus region or Iran. Somehow "that extra
- something" is missing – or we are spoilt! We realized also – the closer we were to the EU – how "overregulated", "overorganized",
- "overschematized" and "overdominated" life was getting. Apart from this we knew a greater part of the Balkans already, "only" Bosnia, Montenegro,
- Kosovo and Northern Cyprus would have been new to us – all the others were "yesterday's news", and if not from yesterday - from 1996.
- Result: This far and no further! Thus from Moldova back to Odessa in the Ukraine and looking for quotes for the 27th container: Micronesia,
- India, Eritrea and Cape Verde have been under consideration – because in the meantime Egypt became "non-accessible" – at least with an own
- car. Unfortunately Saudi Arabia additionally stopped issueing transit-visas and crossing Pakistan's Balochistan was getting too dangerous.
- After weighting all benefits and disadvantages and taking into account that the destination to choose should lie "somewhere in the warmer South",
- we opted for the Cape Verdean Islands. MSC Shipping was ready to ship the container for US$ 2'640 in four batches, i.e. transshipments in Italy,
- Portugal and the Canary Islands. Of course there were still some significant port and other fees to pay.
- Because both of our cameras were stolen in Abkhazia (see News - August 2013) and the replacement in Georgia shortly before our departure to
- Ukraine was just provisional, we chose to fly from Odessa with Air Arabia via Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates (once more!). There we could
- fully live up to our buying frenzy and continue with the same carrier via Istanbul to Casablanca in Morocco. There we spent a (recovery-)day
- before going on with Air Maroc to Praia, the capital of Cape Verde. The island group consists of nine inhabited islands, which are partly
- connected among themselves by ro-ro-ferries.
- Because on islands "like these" foreign car visits are unusual and very rare (like in the Caribbean, the Pacific and the Indian Ocean) – quite contrary
- to sailing boats – they can get very costly. Thanks to our entry in the Guinness Book, which was published with a picture very recently in the new
- book 2014 on page 71, the Ministry of Tourism wants to help us. We assume that we get our LandCruiser released from its cage beginning of
- November 2013 and will be able to explore the archipelago for about two months. Presumably we shall land around New Year's day somewhere
- in Western Africa, from where we shall drive along the west coast to the South – subject to changes from our side or because they might be
- imposed on us. Until time has come we shall try to put as many as possible of our Caucasus pictures online – Oman "5" (= western Hajar
- Mountains) and Emirates "4" (= East Coast/Fujairah etc.) are already ready to be looked at; Iran is now also online.
Pacific (Febr. 2008-Jan. 2010 + Aug.-Sept. 2010) Caribbean (June 2003-Dec. 2004) Fairytale Wedding in Dubai (March
1999) Las Vegas (Millennium change) Pictures from Yemen (May-June 1996) Pictures from "all the continents" (Oct. 1984 - April 1997)
New Reports/Pictures
Island of Santiago
Sri Lank part 1
Sri Lank part 2
Tongatapu Island
Rarotonga Island
Indonesia 2006/07
Temples,
Pagodas, Shrines
The visit of 6 countries
with and 1 island without our LandCruiser
Middle
East
The visit of 10 countries
with and 1 without our LandCruiser
Southeast
Asia
The visit of 4 countries
with and 1 islandl without our LandCruiser
Indian
Ocean
The visit of 4 countries
with and 1 without our LandCruiser
Far
East
The visit of 14 Pacific
Islands with and 1 without our LandCruiser
The visit of 13 Caribbean
Islands with our LandCruiser
+ added from the United
Arab Emirates:
+ added
from a earlier visit to the USA:
+ added
from our Arabian Peninsula round trip:
+ Flashbacks
of our Worldrecordtour:
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IN LEGEND" and afterwards "HAIR TO MAGELLAN"
