by Zoe Hanslip | Dec 20, 2020 | Arriving, Life in Mozambique, school
The approach to Christmas and the holiday season seems an appropriate time to reflect on our adventures in Mozambique so far. We have been in Mozambique for nine months. Nine pretty unusual months, but that would have been the case had we stayed in the UK, of...
by Zoe Hanslip | Sep 19, 2020 | school
This blog isn’t particularly about moving to Mozambique – although doing so certainly hasn’t made things simple – but more about the challenges of trying to keep the children active, engaged and motivated to learn when schools are closed and their daily lives are so...
by Zoe Hanslip | Aug 9, 2020 | Near Maputo, Travel, Wildlife
The State of Emergency ended in Mozambique a week ago. It ended for purely technical reasons and restarted only a week later, but the brief pause has acted as a catalyst for some easily socially distanced activities to restart. As such, the Maputo Special Reserve...
by Zoe Hanslip | Jun 6, 2020 | Near Maputo
Visiting beaches in Maputo is no longer allowed or sensible, with too many people in a small place. This was a shame until we found something better. The sugar estate is centred on the top of an escarpment, below which cane fields run towards the...
by Zoe Hanslip | Apr 13, 2020 | Arriving
We arrived in Mozambique over 3 three ago. It’s been a funny 3 weeks. The opportunity to move to Mozambique came about several months ago and it seemed too interesting an adventure to miss out on. But actually getting out here took a long time from...
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