Archive for the '2000-08' Category

Restaurant Review

Mr Pete’s Steakhouse   For the last month, numerous promises had been made to meet for lunch but no date had been set. Suddenly it was Friday, and my friend of many years was leaving Zambia the next day. Having been tied up in meetings all morning and with preparation still to be done for […]

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Zacariah Phiri and his Recently Acquired Device for Annoying Roadusers

He finally got me! Zacariah Phiri, with what I thought was his Recently Acquired Device for Annoying Road Users (RADAR). But then I discovered it wasn’t a RADAR at all and it was suggested that it might possibly be a Locally Accepted System of Embezzling Revenue (LASER), but it wasn’t that either. It was in […]

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Livingstone News

Light at the end of the Tunnel Many Livingstone tourist businesses have relied on ‘borrowing’ clients from Victoria Falls Town, Zimbabwe. Some businesses actually advertised themselves on the Zimbabwe page in the Getaway magazine in order to get clients to come to Zambia. Now, of course, all that has changed. There are very few tourists […]

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