Okay here's he next installment of the "Apinautica." Recall our protagonist had gotten in a fight with his Turkish girlfriend and set out on his own.


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May 15th, Day 12 - checked out of the hotel in Labe, it was once again an hour drive from there out into the countryside to the village of Timbi-Touni for training. This time didn't have quite as many beekeeping federation staff, just Khalidou the head trainer and two youngish women who are apparently interns ( Read more... )

Sunday, May 14th, my 41st birthday - Bailo the driver went to get the beekeeping federation (FAPI) staff while Bara and i had breakfast. I asked for coffee w milk and got literally handed a cup of hot milk and a packet of nescafe ( Read more... )

Monday, May 8th, Day 4 - breakfast at the hotel at 8:30 - long French bread baguettes are delicious. Nescafe less so. And omelets are dependable throughout the world, though they could use some cheese here ( Read more... )

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Friday we got off the ferry around 6:00am. Because the ferry only recently began arriving at geelong instead of Melbourne i don't think the Cafe ecosystem has adjusted yet, whereas there's several cafes advertising their open status when you get off the early morning ferry in Tassie there was no such thing in G Town. Fortunately there's a 24 hour ( Read more... )

Thursday we checked out of our airbnb in Flowerpot, Tas. The owners live in a house on the property but we never did see them, guess they were busy these past three days ( Read more... )

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After leaving Hobart on Monday we headed southwest about 45 minutes to our next airbnb, a little cabin in a place on the coast named Flowerpot.


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