Wearing flipflops in Rome

Traffic congestion and fashionistas in silk dresses and oversized sunglasses

Mar 12, 2008 10:39am
OCI CheckpointYay! The OCI is in full swing (no parasols allowed on certain beaches. You could be hiding a rifle behind it). We’ve been given a green sticker for the car (top right corner of the screen!), which we thought meant we’d be allowed to circulate within the “golden triangle” - anywhere within about a km of the Méridien Président, where all the meetings are taking place. In fact it just means …err.. you get a little green sticker on your car, pretty much.There is a huge pile up of cars at the first checkpoint. We get waved through to more traffic chaos at the airport, more combat-wearing kalashnikov-gripping traffic wardens, who wave us through again to the shrill peeping of whisles…back to the first road-block. Aha. In the end, it only takes and hour and 15mn to get to work, whereas it usually takes 15. All around us, Wade stares out from his OCI posters: Welcome.

OCI Checkpoint

Yay! The OCI is in full swing (no parasols allowed on certain beaches. You could be hiding a rifle behind it). We’ve been given a green sticker for the car (top right corner of the screen!), which we thought meant we’d be allowed to circulate within the “golden triangle” - anywhere within about a km of the Méridien Président, where all the meetings are taking place. In fact it just means …err.. you get a little green sticker on your car, pretty much.

There is a huge pile up of cars at the first checkpoint. We get waved through to more traffic chaos at the airport, more combat-wearing kalashnikov-gripping traffic wardens, who wave us through again to the shrill peeping of whisles…back to the first road-block. Aha.

In the end, it only takes and hour and 15mn to get to work, whereas it usually takes 15. All around us, Wade stares out from his OCI posters: Welcome.
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