Monday, 18.2. - Welcome to Kampala

Morning meeting with Christoph Zipfel from GIZ to discuss the agenda and logistics for the next 4 weeks. 'Basic' shopping: 2 local SIM cards for our private phones, which turned out to be a medium bureaucratic nightmare keeping us busy for half the day. Still, we had enough time to snoop around some recommended shops like Aristoc (Books) and Banana Boat (local souvenirs).

Lunch with Christoph Zipfel and Markus Exenberger (also from GIZ), who gave us an interesting update on GIZ's activities in the energy sector and ongoing public private partnerships with Indian and German companies on building a pan-African decentral mobile telephone and power generation net, mainly based on solar energy.

Tough luck: During lunch, one of my dental fillings took its leave. Not the best prerequisite to enter into a 3-week stay 6h away into the Wild! Thanks to the Kampala German commmunity, an appointment with 'Dr. Tom' is arranged for 9 AM tomorrow to fix the issue, which hopefully will suffice to ensure my dental survival until my return to Germany - or at least Kampala.

Dinner with Anna, a German expat and political advisor from Munich in the very recommendable Bay Restaurant directly located at Lake Victoria, followed by a serious snoop into the most important pubs in Kampala such as Miki's Bar and the Capital Club.