Greetings to you and your kin!

The year has started with a bang...however it was a very slow bang in comparision to the jo'burg understanding of a bang. Must be the Cape Town interpretation.

For the past two weeks I've done very little, but have been entirely content. My day normally starts at noon and then breakfast is normally accompanied by, of recent, the cricket. Lunch is merely a a snack when I realise its 16:30 and I still havent eaten, and then my day actually begins.

I have been doing plenty of shopping, sleeping (which I may have mentioned) and catching up with all the oldies. Work was limited to a couple of days of MC'ing and a few days on the beach. The work I foresee myself doing: working on the tan!

Tomorrow is the first chapter of our Mozambican adventure! A sibling and 4 Germans will be my travel companions.

We are definately roughing it!

We are all getting to Maputu in various ways - I, for instance will be boarding a fruit and jetting into OR Tambo International airport (formerly known as JHB International.) After a night on someone's lounge floor, Yvonne and I will be hopping a board a dog on wheels and entering Mozambique Saturday night. The capital city will be home for 3 nights (backpackers, of course!) until all zee germans arrive. Then its a bee-line straight to the closest beach camping spot and bob's your uncle (well, in my case another relative but then the saying doesn't fit!)

We will be making our way up North, however how far and for how long is mostly money dependent. We may need to resort to stealing bananas and avos as we progress! Also, it is said that the further North you travel the more exotic the beaches are - fear not, I will test each beach and location for "exoticacy." Whilst working on my tan will be tricky, I am the kind of responsible person willing to take the extra work of comparing beaches on my shoulders.

:)

Post Mozambique: well, the great Asian jungles are calling my name - that is A.) the urban jungles and B.) because I sent them my CV.
March on!

Otherwise I hope that pick one:Taiwan, Hong-Kong, Korea, Thailand, The UK, Botswana, New Zealand, The Netherlands, Planet Jupiter, The States, Serbia, The far east Rand, Cape Town - and areas just out side of the boerewors curtain
are treating you well!

Please keep me up to date with happenings! I hope that you will keep me up to date with the amount that I intend for you! hehe!

much love
***claire

ps: will have min internet access til beginning of Feb, please bear with me!