It’s Friday night in a small beach side community and the girls are heading to where the action is. Tofo, and there’s no stopping them!
Well not a stop really, more a pause in the proceedings as we indulged in a few Savanna’s and vodkas at the local Shebeen while waiting for the taxi to come pick us up from Tofo.
There had been a few signs, a constant whining noise and the electronically written message on the dashboard. It had told us the car was overdue for its maintenance check.
Apparently the cars warning signs had not been in jest, our transport was now unmovable on the side of the road. Three of the wheels were facing forward while the front left was facing at a severe 90-degree angle towards the bushes. When looked at with a smartphones torch, all its ball bearings were exposed in their casing to the world – oops!Read More
A Travelers Facebook community, like all Facebook communities, are set up to function as help networks for the communities they support, be it travelers, expats, surfers, knitters the list is endless. Unfortunately, what tends to end up happening is it becomes a platform for idle people. People seeking to share with a captive audience their opinions which are in the main part are rarely positive. It provides a safety net of invisibility for people to say anything and everything that enters their head. Things which would never be uttered in the social life we’ve been used to.
There have been lots of wars, civil unrest, hostilities and general tension in countries between the north and south both in history and currently. Apparently, I’m in one of those countries right now, Mozambique.
I’m sitting on a log on the beach drinking my coffee and its 8 am. The suns nice and warming and there’s a gentle breeze to help wipe away last nights sleep. The birds in nearby shrubs are chatting amongst themselves and the waves are crumbling or intermittently crashing in front of me.
Most of my last seven years have been spent living in a developing country, specifically Cambodia which provided its own set of life problems. Returning to a developed country can also throw up its own unique life problems and the common theme here is that most problems center around ones ability to assimilate, or not.
