Tag: travel
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Updates 2025
A quick update on my life and Congo in December 2025 with some photos!
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Le golf en République Démocratique du Congo
Saviez-vous qu’il y a 2 terrains de golf en République Démocratique du Congo? Oui, un à Kinshasa et un autre à Lubumbashi. Tous les deux sont des 18 trous!
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Emilio in Leuven
Your dear author now has to share his time between Belgium, where my family is (a new father I am!) and Congo where work is never finished or missing!
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100% Congolese produce and arts and crafts
Do you want to support the local Congolese economy? Do you want quality food products? Here are a few that I can recommend. Here are a few that I know of.
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Mauritius and Reunion holidays
Our visit to Mauritius and Reunion in March 2024
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Photographs of the Kinshasa golf course
Photographs of the Kinshasa golf course in the 2020s. I took these photographs in the last few years. I was the volunteer greenkeeper in 2022 with the help of a great golf and central committee at the time and two great interns from Africa Turf Academy and from South Africa, Daniel Van Staden and Marthinus…
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Israel (Tel Aviv and Kfar Hanokdim)
A complicated place but worth a visit if you can stand the questioning at arrival and departure.
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Egypt
There is now a direct flight from Kinshasa to Cairo with Egyptair! The flight is around 600 USD. It leaves at midnight and takes 5 hours and 50 minutes. The plane is a Boeing 737. It’s a bit old and there is no inflight entertainment. You can watch the overhead movies 😀 The food is…
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Emilio in Italy
Sometimes it’s nice to get away. Living in Kinshasa is a bit intense. Getting out here and there, if you can, is a good thing to reset your mind. The madness of the city and country can get you down and narrow your mind.
Emilio in Congo (DRC) 