Swak Geld
Don’t you check that palm trees are like the supermodels of the tree world? I mean check how they rise above all the others gooiing poses all over the show. For sure you get a Iman oak or a Kate Moss willow here and there but palm trees always seem to steal the show. It’s so easy to look good in pictures up against white cloud spotted blue skies and even easier if there’s long stretches of beach beside you and islands in the distance. Wait a minute – I think I just described Mozambique. Actually just add in people that are an exotic mix of African, Indian and Arab.
Then someone made me wys that palm trees aren’t actually indigenous to Mozambique and I was like: “Wow, foreign supermodels!”
My mission here in Mozambique is pretty simple i.e. Use Maputo as a base and one week in Vilankulos and one week in Tofu. But, of course, now that I’m here I’m checking that there’s a whole lot more that a man wants to check but this time though, the cash is weak.
Vilankulos was good to me though, even though they had a cyclone a few months ago and large parts of it was damaged (including the internet spots). There were supermodels lying broken along the roadside but enough survived to make the place still pretty special. The snorkelling around the Bazaruto archipelago was also befok. As was the electrical storm the last day we were in Vilankulos. I go to Tofu tomorrow.
Now since the ‘cash is weak’ [in Afrikaans this translates to ‘swak geld‘], you’re all thinking I need to address that age old question of ‘When are you getting home?’ I’m out of denial now, so I can address the question directly. You see the thing is, I had a really cool plan. That was: quit your job, take your pension and spend it travelling for a year and then go back home and start over. [Actually this was Plan C, Plan A and Plan B being shafted due to factors beyond my control]. The problem is that now I’m going home to ‘start over’. I am kak reluctant to get back and I don’t smaak to be broke and look for a job and all that stuff. But it will be soon methinks. After all, the cash is weak.
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