Monday, October 30, 2006

Goodbye Maputo



Finally after weeks of obsessively checking our emails, Stebba and I have jobs, albeit unpaid ones. We head up to Zambezia province to work for ActionAid; i will be stationed in Maganja da Costa, Stefania in Pebane. For those of you interested in finding it on a map - the nearest big town is Quelimane, i'm just under 100km away as the crow flies, but it can take up to 5 hours to drive there. It's about the same from me to Stefania. Maganja isn't on most maps, but if you can find Quelimane and Pebane - i'm about halfway and a little inland (unfortunately no beach, sea breeze or giant prawns for me)

On our last night in Maputo we went to the fish market with lots of people for supper and ate huge amounts of crab and prawns. The market is amazing, lots of little stalls with fish and prawns etc - you choose what you want and they cook it for you while you sit at little tables nearby drinking beer. I have decided that food that requires effort to eat it tastes much much better. Crab is definitely my new favourite food, despite cutting my fingers trying to break the shell. I also think I could eat the local prawns endlessly - and they are huge, although not as big as they used to be, apparently.

Had more drinks afterwards with Margeir and Franklin, and then stayed up until 4am packing. Not fun.

2 comments:

tsangano said...

yeaahhhhhh i reallly like these!!!
the fish market!!! gr8t place to be, just beggining of this yr i was there and ate a lot at the fish market!!! and to think that seafood is expensive here in berlin ....

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