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If you don't have WiFi (and have to use an Internet café computer for the book purchase, without any way of using their WiFi for your device instead), you're out of luck, probably. I doubt you can buy a DRM-d file over a public computer; even if it had Adobe Digital Editions installed, it wouldn't be tied to your ADE account.
As long as you can get WiFi, you can buy the book directly from your reader via the bookshop affiliated with your reader, in this case Kobo (or, I assume, you can also buy from the Kobo shop and then download the file on the reader).
If there is absolutely no way to get WiFi, many smartphones allow one to create a temporary WiFi hotspot that a reader should manage to connect to.
If the book is not on Kobo, but is available, as a DRM-d file, from any other online shop, then you're out of luck (just like you'd be out of luck with only a Kindle and a book not available on Amazon in a similar situation). If it's available somewhere else DRM-free, you can probably buy it on a public computer and then sideload with USB cable.
I suppose the workaround for such a traveller would be to carry a personal laptop with ADE installed and do any spontaneous book-buying from the laptop, so that he can then transfer/sideload the book to the reader.
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