Tomorrow we are on the move again. Well when I say we, I mean Jen and I. Adam is still fighting the endless mindless bureaucracy to have every ‘i’ dotted and ’t’ crossed to achieve registration for his Landy, Zikit. Its hoped he can achieve the “stamp” that is holding…
Good news at last! We have the Poki and Zikit back. The events of the last few days have been quite hectic. After many frantic emails and phone calls between us and OneLogix, the what seemed like a never ending saga with SARS/Customs was finally resolved. Yesterday morning we went…
On Thursday 23 March we made our first visit to the shipping agents in Lome, Togo. Three months ago. Yesterday morning at around 9am we received a call from our agents telling us to be at the container depot in 15 minutes. It’s a 30min drive and we had the…
Still at Key Largo The euphoria of watching the Leonidio pass our apartment on its way to docking in Durban has evaporated. The ship docked later that evening and our container was unloaded at 02.40. Nine days later, that’s still where we are at. Customs have not yet given us…
First up. Happy Birthday Georgia. Georgia is my eldest grandchild and is 15 today. She lives in Vancouver with my eldest daughter, Deirdre. We are all abuzz in our apartment. It’s 4pm and the container ship Leonidio is steaming past our balcony. It’s been a beautiful blue-sky day and about…
All is not well in “Paradise”. It’s wet. Yesterday was showery. This wasn’t a problem, as we were out on a tour all day. We were fortunate that it mostly rained while we were in the car between attractions. Today, however, it has been continuous heavy rain. As we had…
Arriving two days ago to at the Tamassa resort on the south coast of Mauritius we have had time to enjoy some amazing weather. Tans are being re established and lots of reading and eating going on. Adam took us to Durban airport in our little Renault Kwid rental car…
Shipping news We were hoping for news that our container had been loaded on the Rabelais in Kribi on 13th. The shipping company’s tracking website was unchanged, so last night we were rather concerned. This morning we hoped for an update, but nothing. At around 1300 Adam checked again and…
The days slide by and we entertain ourselves with reading, watching Netflix and Prime and making regular visits to a Mall to window-shop and take coffee or hot chocolate at the local Mugg & Bean. The Netflix series ‘Occupied’ has us confused but royally entertained..:) While taking coffee in the…
Time for an update We have been trying to ascertain if we can extend our stay in South Africa and, if so, how we go about it. Technically we don’t have visas. Just an entry stamp granting us a 90 day stay. Like shipping, it has been quite frustrating. We…