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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Pocket Change, post: 341296, member: 8012&quot;]Nice notes!!!&nbsp; I spent 22 years in West/Central Africa.</p><p><br /></p><p>Congo was not on my lists, but I ended up visiting there.... </p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;Long story short ---&gt;&nbsp; I was supposed to go to Cameroon.&nbsp; Well, the plane left Dakar, Senegal at 11 p.m. and was scheduled to arrive in Cameroon at about 3 a.m. after a few stops in various West African capitals.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Well, I was fast asleep whenever they landed in Cameroon and the next thing I know, they say they&#039;re landing in Brazzaville and they will not be continuing to Bangui (Central African Republic) because of &quot;civil unrest&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>I quickly grab the nearest stewardess and explain that I should have gotten off the plane in Cameroon.&nbsp; She just laughs and says I can just hang out with them.</p><p><br /></p><p>This was with the airline company Air Afrique - they no longer exist.&nbsp; But anyways, I spent three days in Brazzaville, Congo free of charge - the hotel, food and incidentals were all covered.&nbsp; Brazzaville is cool in that it is just across the river from Kinshasa - the capital of the &quot;other&quot; Congo.&nbsp; They can literally throw stones at each other.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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