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All About Africa
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Our First Imokilly People Article - Malachy, 17th February. It’s so exciting to see our first article printed in the Imokilly People! Page layout made a very fine job of it and we are thrilled to bits. The only difficulty will be meeting that standard of work every week for the next five or six weeks, before we have even left Cork. Once we get going it will all be new and fascinating and generally the stuff of interesting articles. Then the challenges will be keeping our batteries going and getting phone coverage, not finding material for newspaper articles. I can’t wait for Niamh to finish up at work. I operate much more efficiently when she is constantly hassling me for results. That’s only a week away. In the meantime, l continue to promote our sponsorship packages, struggle with an elusive Libyan visa and liase with schools and aid agencies. I had originally wanted to go from France to Algeria, but it looks like Algeria is on par with Libya for access difficulties. It seems that the only visa we need to get from home is the Libyan Visa. The rest are issued in neighbouring countries or even on arrival, we hope. But let me tell you about Libya. The Libyan embassy in London require the applicant to obtain an invitation from the Libyan Government (which can be done by a travel agent in Libya) and then the application must be hand delivered (courier will do fine) to the London Embassy. It sounds reasonable enough on paper, but try getting the number for a Libyan travel agent, not to mind phoning them! Lonely Planet have an excellent forum, where I have found many dialogues about Libya and some of them just end up with “I give up on this place. I think I’ll go to Egypt.” The other advantage Egypt has is that you can survive for a week in Egypt on one day’s budget for Libya. Okay, enough about Libya. |
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