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Here are some of the worse-looking apartment buildings in our city, and I found it very funny that most of the apartments have satellite tv!  You can get a package here for about $80 a month (I am guessing) which is a huge luxury.  People here are becoming addicted to TV, though, which is sad toContinue reading

  Here’s a view of what’s for sale this week!  And last week, and the week before.  The merchandise around here rarely changes.  This was taken in a shop window, and most of the shop windows have this kind of thing, or food items, on display.  The quality is very, very bad. Think dollar store ,Continue reading

These are empty 5-liter (about 2 1/2 gallon) jugs that had cooking oil.  Sold in a market near you! (well, us)  – C

Here’s a photo of a “chapa”, which is the local minibus taxi.  It looks pretty nice from the outside, but inside you are likely to find up to 20 people crammed, on rickety ripped seats with barely any padding.  Everyone is usually very pleasant, and it is nice to see people from all strata ofContinue reading “Ride the “bus””

Well, we don’t have a KFC here (or any other major fast food restaurant, much to my children’s dismay).  However, the restaurants do serve some nice food, and here is a photo of one of my favorite things – Chicken Zambeziana.  Zambezia is the name of one of the provinces in Mozambique, so I’m guessingContinue reading “KFC”

Yes, Coke is everywhere.  It’s very popular here of course, and is usually sold in glass bottles, which are carried around in red plastic crates.  Most people with money keep a crate at home and after they drink up all the Cokes (or Sprites, or Fanta) they take the crate with the empty bottles backContinue reading “Everywhere on Earth”

I know it is often hard to tell, from our photos, that we actually live in the second largest city in Mozambique.  Of course, our house is 15 minutes from the cement center and the “bigger” shops, and the roads around our house are dirt, but when we drive around there is usually a lotContinue reading “We live in a city!”

Peppers are easy to find around here, and are commonly referred to as “piri-piri”.  You find them ground up in a sauce on all the tables at restaurants and we have started making our own sauce at home. Toby and Kevin are pretty addicted, and put them on eggs, bread, spaghetti, rice and beans, youContinue reading “Red Hot Chili Peppers”

Toby turned 11 years old today!  We celebrated with his choice of dinner meat, homemade french fries, and a cake made from a box mix, with store-bought frosting, sent from the USA by Kevin’s parents.  Wow, those additives and preservatives sure taste good.  They must add extra flavor or something. Toby got to play minecraftContinue reading “Toby turns 11!”

Here’s doors and windows for sale, a common sight around here.  Yes, that is a baobob tree, and yes, that is two men on a motorcycle, also very common sights. – C