The Life and Adventures of Gregwah

Well, I’ve finally made it back to Mozambique, my return to the farm is imminent! Can’t wait to see my dog again! It’s been long few days, firstly, my flight from Sydney to Joburg was two hours late, causing me to miss the last bus to Nelspruit that evening. So after being awake for more than 24hours I wasn’t impressed to have to bugger around and find a place to stay overnight. After a bit of fuffing around I was able to locate and make my way to some accommodation that didn’t cost a fortune. Upon arriving I tried to organise my shuttle to Nelspruit the next morning only to find that the shuttles were all booked until the afternoon. Amazing how missing one bus by half an hour can put you back a whole day! Nuts!

The trip upto Nelspruit was pretty uneventful and I checked into my usual backpackers, happy to have a few beers with friends I’ve not seen for a few months. How time flies, they thought I’d been gone for only a month, when in fact I’d been gone for more than 3! Thursday was spent organising my Moz visa and shopping whilst I waited. Once again managed to get myself a 6 month visa, of course with the bugger of having to leave the country every 30 days. Geez I hate that. Jumped on they bus to come through to Maputo on Friday lunchtime, again reasonably uneventful until after the border where the bus had a blow out. Bugger! Fearing that we could be trapped by the side of the road for hours, and that infact I’d never get to Maputo to meet Christen, I was able to jump off the bus and get on another bus, all with in 5 mins! Good work!

I arrived in Maputo last night only a few hours late, and met up with Christen. We’ve not seen each other for over two years since her, Jimmy, Maryann and I travelled Sth Africa and Zambia together in early 2006. Bloody long time but nothing much has changed, still the eating, drinking and funny times! She’s here working for an NGO for six months as part of her Masters… Nerd! I hear you shouting, yes I would agree!

I’ll be returning to the farm tomorrow, only I’ve the slight problem that I’m unable to get a hold of Charles atm. His phone has been off since I got into Mozambique yesterday. Oh well, I’m sure, as usual, that problem will sort itself out. This will most likely be my last post for a while, as you know, back on the farm there is no such magical thing as ‘internet’. Not sure when I’ll be online again, so, see ya!