Hello Tourists
Did you have any hand in the outcome of the elections in Zimbabwe? We fear not.
And now you´re pretty close to your final destination in Africa, have you ordered the champagne in Cape Town already? To celebrate what??? We suppose you´re looking forward to continuing the relevant celebrations in the beer gardens of your native Heilbronn region, with your familiar 4X4 audience of local imbecile claqueurs. Perhaps their presently flagging interest in your activities (going by your home page) will be revived again by your return in the flesh, and by the onset of the spring and summer seasons of your beloved watering holes of Laube, "Food Court", Trappensee, Jägerhaus etc.?
Best of luck
Henry and Mick
P.S.
Will you do some useful work after your return to Germany at long last? Or are you planning on some more idle and meaningless messing about in other poor countries, wasting more of this planet´s resources, your own time, talents, abilities and money?
P.P.S.
Have you ever reflected on where and what you would be without your German passport, your cash and credit cards, and your vehicle in those disadvantaged parts of the world? Will you still feel so great and boisterous after such an experience? We suppose you may safely consider this a rhetorical question answering itself in fact.
Mick and Henry (
doolough@gmx.net) Datum:Sa 22 Mär 2008 11:10:51 CET
Betreff:WHY HAVEN´T YOU FLOWN BACK TO YOUR NATIVE LAND FOR EASTER?
How exceedingly admirable that you can celebrate Easter in SA! Happy days!
Mick and Henry (
doolough@gmx.net) Datum:So 09 Mär 2008 06:24:24 CET
Betreff:INHAMBANE HEART OF DARKNESS
Hello Tourists
Truly no internet access in that charming place on the Indian Ocean? Then you can´t really recommend it to Neckermann et al., can you? But wouldn´t you see it as a realistic proposition for yourself to stay there for good, to never return to the beer gardens of Heilbronn district and the mindless adulation of the local 4X4 community? START all over there e.g. in that wonderful former Portuguese colony? There must be plenty of scope, what e.g. with the many children alone, who get injured there by landmines. Perhaps HERMANN HESSE would have approved of that too, whereas it is very doubtful that he would have seen much sense in your previous travelling for travelling´s sake, which in your case is not much more than WASTING this planet´s resources, not to mention your own talents, education, training, time and money. Please also understand our one big question: Why do you always return to Germany (Even just for Xmas! Are you going back for Easter too?), if you don´t want to stay there really? We promise to support you in any way possible, should you decide to start a reasonably useful (medical) project anywhere in the world. So please come to your senses at long last, and move further ahead in your personal growth to serve human society a bit, and not just follow the "gentlemanly" pursuits of the idle rich of times gone by! On top of practising medicine and looking after young children to the benefit of human society, you could e.g. plant ONE TREE for every litre of fuel you´ve burned so far in your rather deluded globe-trotting activities! That would be a mission you could be truly proud of on completion! And it would surely earn you the respect and recognition of also those people whose intellectual range exceeds the imbecile 4X4 philosophy a slight bit.
Regards
Mick and Henry
Name:Mick and Henry (
doolough@gmx.net) Datum:Mi 05 Mär 2008 15:25:56 CET
Betreff:HALLELUJAH!!!
Dear Universal Tourists
What a great relief you´ve surfaced again! (This should save the German tax payer a bomb in ransom money and costs for sending out search parties for you.) And then in charming Portuguese Inhambane! Why didn´t you decide to stay at Barra Lodge, which has been recommended by some of your fellow tourists? What´s the Indian Ocean like there? Have you had any intimate contacts with sharks yet? We hear there are no internet cafes in that town. Probably obsolete information, and you´ll read this message right in that beautiful place.
Concerning your further plans, we trust you´re in contact with your German embassies in Maputo and Pretoria, so we needn´t worry about you. However, you´ve missed a most important event in your native region: The wonderful new shopping mall "Stadtgalerie" was opened officially yesterday. I´m sure you as ardent consumers (of the world:-) would have been very pleased to attend. (Mr Oettinger did in fact.) Perhaps you decide to sell your obsolete vehicle already in Mozambique and fly back to admire the new consumer temple in Heilbronn straight away? Never mind about Cape Town?
Best of luck
Mick and Henry
Name:Mick and Henry (
doolough@gmx.net) Datum:Mi 05 Mär 2008 14:43:53 CET
Betreff:UPGRADING YOUR 4X4
Dear Dr. and Mrs. Kiesow
We understand no search party has been able to locate you yet. May be just as well. Perhaps you´ve decided to stay in Mozambique for good, where people may need you an awful lot more than in Leingarten/Nordheim and surrounds? Fair play to you anyhow! In this case you might also still be happy with your present somewhat elderly Land Cruiser of only ridiculous 4,164 cc.
However, if you should ever plan on returning to "Schland", you´d be well advised to sell or scrap your present Toyota in SA beforehand, as your beloved local 4X4 community in Heilbronn will only derise same. This is because in the meantime the pride of the AUTOBAHNS and MOTORWAYS in Germany and the rest of Central Europe are the newer, larger and much more powerful "off-road" models of Toyota and also the new Audi Q 7, which surprisingly burn only under 12 litres per 100 km. We are sure this should be a very important consideration for you. Much more than e.g. the presidential election in Zimbabwe and other trivial matters in Africa.....
Hoping for your speedy recovery, we remain,
Yours sincerely
Mick%26Henry Land-Rover
Name:Mick and Henry (
doolough@gmx.net) Datum:Mo 03 Mär 2008 01:01:52 CET
Betreff:4164 cc
Dear Kiesows
Isn´t it an exceedingly terrible waste of your considerable talents, education, training, time and money to just burn diesel messing about in exotic parts of the world? We feel only bloody 4X4 eejits from Kraut country can admire such imbecility.
Get better soon
Mick and Henry
Name:Mick and Henry (
doolough@gmx.net) Datum:Fr 22 Feb 2008 09:18:11 CETBetreff:SEARCH EXPEDITION/RESCUE PARTY/RANSOM PAYMENTS
Hello Adventurers
Isn´t it about time you gave a sign of life? What´s keeping you? Have you lost your way in the jungle or hit a landmine? Have you drowned in the Zambezi, along with your beloved vehicle? Or can´t you get to grips with the Portuguese keyboards in Mozambique? It seems a rather unlikely assumption you can´t afford paying time in internet cafes any more:-)! An update of your last status report from Lilongwe, dated 05. inst., is long overdue by now. Soon a search party will have to be dispatched for you ...(Stanley/Livingstone style, I PRESUME!) naturally at the expense of the GERMAN taxpayer, as will be any payments in ransom money, should you have been abducted by some mad and/or criminal and desperate people in the course of your wonderful adventures in those exotic parts. Are you really being held as hostages? Even then you should rest assured: A GERMAN passport always comes in HANDY then, and you would surely be soon released and make it not only into the "Heilbronner Stimme", but also into the headlines of the "Bild-Zeitung", on top of it all. A triumphal hero´s welcome not only in Cape Town, but also at any of your local beer gardens in the district of Heilbronn would be a dead certainty!!! We have heard of precedents, haven´t we? By the way, where is your nearest GERMAN embassy at this moment? Harare? Maputo? Pretoria?
Don´t forget about the imminent presidential election in Zimbabwe, though. YOU of all people should be fairly familiar with the respective psychiatric implications of same...Is Robert Mugabe a personal friend? Perhaps because he happens to drive the same make of 4X4? Up Toyota Landcruiser?
Right on!
Best of luck
Mick and Henry
Name:Mick and Henry (
doolough@gmx.net) Datum:Fr 08 Feb 2008 23:58:45 CET
Betreff:MAD DOGS AND ENGLISHMEN
Hello Tourists
We heard that in Lilongwe you at least administered in your medical capacity to a dog, whilst staying with some nice English people. With us it´s the other way around, because we normally go to see a vet when we are ill, as it´s a lot cheaper. Keep it up! Right on!
Cheers
Mick and Henry
Name:Mick%26Henry (
doolough@gmx.net) Datum:Mi 06 Feb 2008 14:46:07 CET
Betreff:MUGABE REGIME
Hello Tanja and Kim
We wish you a good start for Mozambique tomorrow! We wonder what route you´ll be travelling? Have you also taken into consideration the presidential elections in neighbouring Zimbabwe/Rhodesia due to take place on 29-03-08? Perhaps you could do something (in your professional capacity?) to STOP Robert Mugabe from hanging on to power and further ruining the country? This would be doing something really GOOD and IMPORTANT not only for Zimbabwe herself, but indeed for the whole of Africa and the rest of the world! We suppose you could make it to Harare/Salisbury in a very few days with your marvellous Toyota Landcruiser. Every litre of diesel burnt by your wonderful economy engine of over 4,000 cc a big step forward for all mankind! The best option to cross the Zambezi river probably being at Tete. Don´t forget to brush up on your Portuguese though for Mozambique. And beware of the many landmines still left over from the civil war!
Best of luck
Mick
Liebe Tanja und Kim,
Mick will Euch davon überzeugen, nach Simbabwe zu fahren, wo Ihr dringend im Wahlkampf gebraucht werdet! Ein Psychiater für den Mann in Harare wäre aber sicher noch besser!
Alles Gute und viel Erfolg,
Henry
Name:Mick%26Henry (
doolough@gmx.net) Datum:Mi 06 Feb 2008 11:17:33 CET
Betreff:BEER
Hello Tourists
Is the beer you can buy from Janey and Tom as significant to your present situation in Malawi, as it usually is to the true "off-road" community spirit in the beer gardens of Heilbronn and environs?
Cheers
Mick
Liebe Afrikatouristen,
Mick will fragen, ob das Bier dort in Malawi auch dieselbe sinnstiftende Wirkung für Euer tolles Projekt entfaltet, wie es normalerweise bei den Treffen der Geländewagenfreunde in Eurer deutschen Heimat der Fall ist.
Hals- und Achsenbruch,
Henry
Mick (
doolough@gmx.net) Datum:Mi 16 Jan 2008 18:56:16 CET
Betreff:SECOND THOUGHTS
Hello Afrikaners
After talking on the phone to a lady from "MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES" in Paris about your project, I felt that perhaps your website would be more appropriately named "hinter-dem-mond.de". What do you think?
Cheers
Mick
Name:Mick (
doolough@gmx.net) Datum:Mi 16 Jan 2008 18:43:23 CET
Betreff:SPONSORING
Hello Tourists
I suppose you have safely returned (by air travel of course) to "The Heart of Darkness" by now (in the true spirit of your predecessors Joseph Conrad, Stanley, Livingstone, Cecil Rhodes, Albert Schweitzer et al. no doubt), and you´ve been very happy to see that so many of your fellow SUV enthusiasts in your native country admire and envy you ever so much for your unusually enterprising spirit to drive your all-terrain vehicle at least temporarily "off-road", i.e. not on the German autobahn/motorway system, as the rest of them usually are wont to do.
I now wonder if it has occured to you yet that a big company like TOYOTA might not want to SPONSOR your extraordinary tourist project? And/or perhaps the makers of "CAMEL", or the publishers of tourist magazines and/or guides etc. (Du Mont)? Or the big German tour operators (TUI, NECKERMANN, COOK´s...)? Please let us know what you´ve attempted in that respect already. Perhaps some of your friends can be of help? Thank you.
Have a safe trip
Mick
Name:Eamonn "Mick" O´Looney (
doolough@gmx.net) Datum:Mi 09 Jan 2008 17:00:13 CET
Betreff:NOBEL PEACE PRIZE
Hello Travellers
Perhaps it is easier to understand your reasons for spending all that time, money and energy on travelling all over the place, than to comprehend the fact that you always RETURN to your native country of Germany? Even for short periods over Xmas and the New Year? Just think what good you could do in Africa with the money you spend on the air tickets alone! Could that perhaps be your need to receive appreciation, recognition and admiration from your local audience in Nordheim and environs?
I´m afraid this coming Friday it will be "The Heart of Darkness" calling "The Head of Emptiness" again. T.I.A.!
I wish you the best of luck on your travels, and that perhaps you´ll eventually find a suitable place in Africa where to settle down for good, and at long last do some useful work in your professional capacity, and find fulfilment and satisfaction for the rest of your life, without any unnatural need to return to your native country! This would have the added advantage of greatly reduced costs for an appropriate burial and grave site after you pass away, which savings could then be ploughed back into your no doubt very deserving African medical project.
Naturally, this should not take place before you have been honoured for your efforts by being awarded the Peace Nobel Prize first!
Best wishes
Eamonn