by Sam Hollis | Apr 30, 2023 | Coast trips, Underwater wildlife
Santa Maria is part of the mainland of Mozambique, but from Maptuo is easier to go by boat than drive. It’s at the end of a peninsula in the Maputo national park. To drive its one and a half hours on the good Chinese built road as far as the park entrance, then four...
by Sam Hollis | Jan 8, 2022 | Coast trips, Covid 19, Travel, Underwater wildlife
We decided something totally different on Christmas day would be good, so, we booked the trip to Santa Carolina, or paradise island. We were staying in Vilankulos at the beach lodge, and after breakfast overlooking the sea we wandered down to the beach where we...
by Sam Hollis | Mar 21, 2021 | Coast trips, Travel
It has been a little while since we have posted. With the rise in COVID numbers as discussed in the last blog, life got a bit more restricted and a blog about my latest exploits with online shopping and not leaving the Condo much seemed a little dull. But numbers are...
by Sam Hollis | Feb 14, 2021 | Covid 19, Life in Mozambique, Near Maputo, school
My last update on this was in November and things looked very different back then. COVID had not taken hold in Mozambique and things were opening up. At Christmas, we managed to get my parents over here and South Africans were flooding over the border to...
by Sam Hollis | Jan 24, 2021 | Coast trips, Life in Mozambique, Visitors
Having arrived in mid March 2020 we had not seen in person any of our family or friends. The toll was starting to tell and by November we were keen to get family out here to visit. The UK December lockdown with associated travel ban put paid to that idea. But with a...
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