Cause the spirit of Jah, you know he leads you on

6/13/10
Ok one more story about my passport and I will let it go. I go back to Holland to pick up my visa. Be here by 3 pm they tell me so I arrive at 2:15.

Frank rings the bell-ding dong
Embassy-No answer
Frank-Ding Dong
Embassy-No Answer
Frank-Knock, Knock
Embassy-No Answer
Frank-KNOCK-KNOCK, HELLO YOU HAVE MY PASSPORT AND BAD THINGS WILL HAPPEN IF YOU DON’T HELP BECAUSE MY FRIEND ERIC KNOWS A WITCH IN CAMEROON.

Joe the driver comes out and informs that everyone left early that day to go watch the soccer (soc cer god damn it). So now I am without a passport and will be leaving the next day. So after some convincing and negotiating Joe decides to ask the Ambassador to phone the person to leave the aforementioned GODDAMNED Soccer match. So after trying for 90 minutes and waiting for another 90 Zika shows up to find my passport. I was really expecting her to be just pissed beyond belief but she actually really professional and polite about it all. So after all this I will head for Cameroon tomorrow.

06/15/10

Luxembourg

Here is your trivia for the day. Luxembourg is the only Grand Duchy in the World. The Musical Youth sang about it in the 80’s with Pass the Grand Duchy on the Left Hand Side. But they became too famous too fast and like any good 80’s band they hit rehab and several failed comebacks. Luxembourg went on to be a steel center and then a banking center.
It is everything that I thought it would be. Small, clean, organized, lots of shopping and banking. Also expensive as hell. And that is Luxembourg.