Just registered davegerhard.com domain name and am setting up the blog site to capture all the highlights of the upcoming trip. Hopefully I'll have everything up and running before too long but if not well it's a beautiful sunny day in southwestern Ontario and there's a fridge full of beer downstairs. I haven't been here during the summer since 2005 so I had forgotten how nice it is and how green it gets and how many mosquitos there are in the back yard.
Dominating Madagascar
Books Read in Madagascar
- The Devil Tree - Jerzey Kuzinsky (Obtained from Jacques in exchange for Blood Hunt - Read on TB enroute to Tana) Definitely the wierdest book read in Madagascar and that is saying something because the list also includes A Time of Laughter and Forgetting which was really really wierd in it's own right. The devil tree refers to the Baobab tree but what the book is actually about I have no idea.
- 1984 - George Orwell (Obtained from Dr Sabrina at Grand Hotel Pool in exchange for kind words) I thought I had read this but it must have been Animal Farm that I had read as it was all new to me. Quite a bit deeper than the BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU that has stood the test of time
- Blood Hunt - Ian Rankin writing as Jack Harvey (obtained from Jacques at Les Arcades in exchange for Cry Wolf) DG comment: this book couldn't decide whether it wanted to be a conspiracy novel, a revenge novel, or an SAS action novel as a result it lacked a bit in each category but was ok considering I was desparate for some english language reading material by the time I got to Diego Suarez.
- Cry Wolf - Wilbur Smith - (Read on various taxi brousse's and when bored in Ambositra) Cool adventure novel, easy to read period just-pre WW2 Africa war book generally liked it and it makes me want to wikipedia Ethiopean history.
- The Honourable Schoolboy - John Le Carré (starting from page 165 read on various taxi brousse's finished in Manakara) Generally crap I like spy novels but this one was uninteresting and crap even though I had no trouble following it despite picking it up 165 pages in.
- A Fish Caught in Time - The Search for the Coelacanth - Samantha Weinberg (Borrowed from La Grand Bleu dive club and read on the beach in Ifaty in between dives 2 and 3)
- Farewell Waltz - Milan Kundera (Pirogue de Mer, la plage) - DG comment good book, lots of interesting characters and bizzare scenarios. Set in Prague in the '70s. Would make a good film.
- Rich Dad, Poor Dad - Robert Kiyosaki (Pirogue de Mer, la plage) "Mind your own business" "Work to learn" "Pay yourself first"
- The Book of Laughter and Forgetting - Milan Kundera (Priogue de Mer, la plage) "Right in the middle of Prague, Wenceslaus Square, there is this guy throwing up. And this other guy comes along, takes a look at him and says "I know just what you mean."
- Bel Canto - Ann Patchet (Pirogue de Mer, la plage) "'Do you mean to shoot us?' He said in French, a simple sentence he couldn't say in Spanish because he didn't know the word for shoot, a word he imagined he should make a point to learn."
- The Shock Doctorine - Naomi Klien (4x4, priogue de mer, la plage)
- The Dolphin's Tooth - Bruce Kirkby (priogue + 4x4)
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- Having registered the domain name davegerhard.com. I'm planning on using the blog to tell the tales of my trip around the world in 2008/09. After that the idea is to create a proper website.
2 comments:
I must admit. it felt odd playing nightvision golf at 11:630am but hey what better time to play night vision golf then 630 minutes after 11. on a another note, you really should check your facebook. there are some philisophocally interesting insigts into the importance of 11.
also not sure if you noticed.. but all of your blog updates so far have occured at 11:XX. co-incidence. I think not
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