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Things that Annoyed Charly today...

Maputo, Mozambique


Today everyhting that could go wrong- did today:-

  • I had a restless night's sleep, with a huge headache

  • Neither mine or Chris' bank cards were working so we had to leave Swaziland early as we didn't have money

  • The banks refused to change our currency as we didn't have an account with them

  • I left the ring Chris brought me in Venice at Swaziland

  • The lady at the Swaziland border asked me loads of questions and I couldn't understand her so we both got very annoyed with each other

  • The guy behind the counter wouldn't accept dollars for the visa- only rand, so took our last rand and wouldn't give us change- until he saw that we weren't leaving without it.

  • Chris then had to buy even more car insurance to enter Mozambique and then they kept begging him for more money.

  • I got attacked by a swarm of children at the petrol station for sweets, then one accidentally punched me in the face

  • We couldn't find any accommodation in Maputo so had to drive 4 hours further than planned

  • I got ripped off buying a high vis jacket (an essential in Mozambique) by giving the guy rand instead of meticas, 5x the amount he asked for as I got mixed up with all the currency we had on us. Chris thought it was hilarious, I was fuming

  • We got stopped by the police for no reason at all.

  • We had no choice but spend 70 pound pp for a night's accomodation as there was no where else.


  • A very stressful day...


    permalink written by  chrischarly on August 2, 2010 from Maputo, Mozambique
    from the travel blog: Chris and Charly's African Adventure
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