GOT IT!!

I have never ever (honestly) felt so nervous before ... but eventually got the Sudan visa!!

Went there this morning to drop it off ... supposed to open at nine ... welcome to Africa - no one at the counters till quarter-to-ten ... then drop this here, go to that window, do this, do that ... and you just pray you are doing everything correct. Everyone there has some horror story of someone who didn't get their visa for a good month or so.

I was told to come back later ... tried to converse and one person said two hours - the other said two o'clock ... maybe his English is bad and he ment two hours and not two o'clock??

Well we went to a market for some time ... sight seeing and stuck in traffic. I went back at one and the right person was off .. who knows where? Eventually someone came with all the passports ... except mine ... yeehaa-f.....-yeeha!

A while later another pile came and mine cropped out of the woodwork ... with my stamp ... imagine me with one hell of a smile now!!!

Just an interesting point ... in '93 travelling all over - including north Africa - people always exclaimed "Mandela" when I say I'm from South Africa. now everyone exclaims "Bafana Bafana!!' .. and adds that they just recently kicked our butts!