A working holiday

So this time not a report from Heleen or Michel, but a report from a visitor. Last July I stayed with a friend for a month with them to help them with the pizzeria.

In the beginning the plan was to help in Dutchess, but unfortunately the building process wasn't ready yet. After arriving in Uganda we first went to Jinja to relax for a bit. Heleen came to pick us up. The car was already full with bottles and other stuff for making the cheese. To our surprise Michel was coming with us to Jinja too. But he came with more stuff. This time for the new place Dutchess. After the night in Jinja we went to Fort Portal. Not new to us, because last year we travelled with Sawadee and Heleen was or tour guide. So the pizzeria wasn't new for us either. We went there two times last year, because the pizza was sooooooooo good.
And it still is. And I can know because I think I had like 18 pizza's in a month.

At home we were welcomed by the dogs, every day again! It really felt like coming home. Not only because of the dogs, but also because Heleen and Michel totally opened their home to us. In the four weeks we helped with making cheese/yoghurt, painted the pizzeria and if it was necessary we helped with the pizzeria it self. Serving and making pizza and counting the stock. Especially painting the fence was funny. There were a lot of people walking by to watch the blond girl painting the fence. But they all
said I did a good job ;-). The make-over of the pizzeria was a success. The new colours are great, they installed a new toilet and they sorted out the electricity. Dutchess is still in the building process but it is already looking great. The fence they designed themselves is awesome. The terraces are real eye catchers.

I have a lot of respect of what Heleen and Michel are doing over there in beautiful Uganda. Not only they are managing a restaurant, building another one and making cream/yoghurt and cheese, they also made time to travel with us. I will never forget the evenings when we watched “Weeds” or “True blood” with the dogs on our laps, or the night clubbing with Heleen and the staff of the pizzeria to say goodbye to everybody.

The last week I travelled with Heleen. Unfortunately Michel was sick at the same time :-(. We went for Ishasha to see the tree climbing lions, but for the second time in my live I didn't see a lion in the whole park. And I helped to bring Heleens average down a lot. After the disappointment of not seeing a lion we also got locked up in our rooms. And off course, at that moment our phones didn't work. In Lake Mburo we almost got a hippo on our car. He was only 10 centimetres away from the car. It was dark and we just didn't see his big pink.........

So all together it was a great adventure! Heleen and Michel; thanks for everything. I will be back when Dutchess is finished!