Ups and downs in Mozambique
I went for a trip to Mozambique last week. We’re building a house there and I had to take more material for the building contractor.
Unfortunately I ended up loosing my friends’ passports! Big mistake! It fell out of the car at a stop on the way there. Man, what an idiot!?
What was supposed to be a rather relaxing “business trip”, ended up being a bit of a stressful nightmare. I had difficulty with the officials, whom were set out to make life hard for you. The most unpleasant bunch of people you’ll ever meet. It took me four days to get a statement out of them, which merely states that I’ve lost the passports. In SA that takes around 30 mins. That’s Africa for you.
Luckily I did get my feet in the sand a few times. I did a 10km run on the beach and learned to surf! Quite pleased with that. Other than those two outings, my training programme took a nose dive and I didn’t get round to half the training I was planning on. I’ll try to get it back on track this week, but the sudden arrival of winter is not helping much.
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Ups and downs in Mozambique
April 16th, 2008 9:36 am
Brad Hefta-Gaub says:
Too bad you had to deal with the frustration of a passport snafu…. but it looks like the trip was quite beautiful!