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 Sam Hollis | Apr 20, 2020 | Arriving
Trying to work out how things work in a foreign country is always challenging. In the last ten years, this has become much easier with Google Maps, Google translate and taking your phone with you. But think back twenty years ago. A new country was a new challenge. How...
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...
by Harriett Hollis | Apr 5, 2020 | Arriving
All four of us went with an estate agent to look for a suitable house. We looked at seven houses of which we agreed on one. We tried to get it, but it was not possible, so we asked for another one. We managed to debate the price and rent the house. A couple of days...
by Imogen Hollis | Mar 29, 2020 | Arriving
Welcome to our first Hollis family blog. This is the story of how we got to Mozambique Zoe At nine o clock at night, with the children in bed and expecting to go to school in the morning, I heard some worrying news. South Africa was intending to close their borders in...
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