by Sam Hollis | Jul 22, 2020 | Coast trips, Near Maputo, Wildlife
When you look, it’s amazing how much wildlife you see. I think that’s true whether you’re in the back garden in East Yorkshire, sat in the garden in Maputo, or here where I am now at Machubo. The wildlife you see in each place is very different, but, it’s always...
by Sam Hollis | Jul 5, 2020 | Coast trips, Travel
We have been amazingly lucky managing to get away on a holiday for a few days. Given the restrictions around the world, being able to drive to a deserted coast, and stay there is so fortunate. Mozambican independence day on a Thursday gave us a good excuse for a long...
by Sam Hollis | Jun 21, 2020 | Near Maputo, Wildlife
We had heard that not too far away from us, as the Incomati river meets the sea is a place renowned for its birdlife so we thought we’d have a bit of an explore. In the UK this normally involved packing cagoules, fleeces, stout shoes, RSPB membership cards,...
by Sam Hollis | May 24, 2020 | Covid 19
I get asked a lot of the time ‘are you locked down in Mozambique?’ or ‘what’s the lockdown like in Mozambique?’. So I thought I’d explain it here. First of all, there isn’t a lockdown as such. It isn’t like the UK was....
by Sam Hollis | May 2, 2020 | Near Maputo
Two weeks of isolation and then social distancing has meant a lot of time in the house and in a hotel, and not much time getting out and seeing the country we have moved to. Going to the supermarket hardly counts as a cultural experience. Although the staff coming...
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