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tway

"Have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves."

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Tina Wayland

36 / Female

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

About tway

Travel Guru | Member since 17th Aug 04

Citizenship: Canada
Occupation: Copywriter
Hobbies:

DragonBoat

Favourite places:

Brugge; Piha Beach, Auckland; Paris... mmmm...

Activity : photos (123) forum (7267) guide (8698) blog (24) diary (0) trips (17)

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Part 3: Mozambique

Posted by tway | 29th November 2008

I wasn't expecting Mozambique to look like that.

I mean, I'd seen pictures of Africa, with its poor villages and crowds of people and the struggle for every and anything. And we'd just been through parts of South Africa where tin villages sat on dry sand and people made their living doing whatever was at hand. It was haphazard and poor and terribly simple, but it felt grounded in some culture that wasn't for us to understand, some way of life that was different and fundamentally good.

But Mozambique was chaos.

It started at the border. Three of us had our visas already, but everyone else--wisely--had waited till the border to get theirs (so much for my $80 in Puralator fees!). So we picked up a "helper" just outside the border, who was supposed to speed up the process and ensure we dotted all our I's and made quick time.

Well.

The border was a mess. There were people everywhere--standing around, trying to trade Mozambique Metacals for South African Rand, pushing and shov

Continued | Here, There and Everywhere

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Interlaken Guesthouse review: Rugenpark B&B

Most excellent B&B! A very short 5-minute walk from Interlaken West train station--which means a quick trip to start your way into the mountains. Plus it's extremely affordable, by Swiss standards. And quiet--we slept like babies!

We stayed in a room with shared accommodations--and what a room! Lovely clean, white bedding with feather duvet, very bright, small clean sink, plus a huge balcony all to ourselves with a big clothesline. You could even see Jungfrau from the window. The shared bathroom was always, always clean--it's like someone snuck in and cleaned up as soon as you were done.

Breakfasts were copious and delicious--with meats, cheeses, toast, cereal, coffee, hot chocolate, and lots of Nutella. The dining room was wonderful, overlooking a beautiful garden.

Best of all, the owners were extremely helpful and kind. They greeted us by name when we walked in the door, always asked if they could help, offered money-saving tips, restaurant suggestions, etc. etc. etc.

An absolutely fantastic trip made complete by this beautiful little B&B. Highly recommended!

Overall
4
Location
5
Cleanliness
4
Value
4
Facilities
4
Service
4

tway stayed here in Jul 2007
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Most Recently Visited

Durban, South Africa

24 Nov 2008

Trips

Africa (1888 kms)

07 Nov 2008 - 24 Nov 2008

Visiting: South Africa, Mozambique, Swaziland and South Africa.

Saguenay (885 kms)

31 Aug 2007 - 02 Sep 2007

Visiting: Canada.

Bits of Europe (1473 kms)

25 Jun 2007 - 10 Jul 2007

Visiting: Germany, Luxembourg, Switzerland and France.

All Trips by tway (17)

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Canada

I've lived in Montreal all my life. It's a great city with so much to do - day and night, summer and winter, you'll never be bored. I love, love, love to talk about where I'm from - so I'm enthusiastically looking forward to any and all of your questions!

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