Monday, April 28, 2008

Moving and Farewell

Friday 6 April the movers came to collect all our items to send to the Netherlands. On Saturday the “leftovers” were moved in a Malawian way, leaving us with a very empty house. Although the boys were thrilled: “you can play football inside the house now!”
Fare wells
We had to say goodbye to our staff and to some of the animals. Whitesocks moved in with Letwin and the cat Misty and the dog Jip went to Anneke Meursing’s house where they settled in nicely. We had lovely farewell dinners with the Surtee- Tomsons, the Sacranies and the Kitty-Willies.

Radio interview
Bart and Evert went to the FM 101 studio for a radio interview.


We’re off
After the car was fixed finally we could leave on Monday 21 April. Evert is packed!
We even found a place for Bart.
Heavy loaded but we’re off. Bye Blantyre, bye!!

Photo's will follow ( difficult here in this internetcafe)

Chinteche – Dar es Salaam
We spent one sunny and one rainy day in Chinteche where we camped at the Chinteche Inn to get organized. The 24 April we arrived in Mbeya in Tanzania. We spent a very comfortable night in Karibuni Centre. Evert calculated our expenses to 2 euro per person per night.
The next day to Mikumi. The rainy season has not stopped yet, so we had quite some rain. The next day from Mikumi to Dar es Salaam. Our first 1500 kilometre!
Unfortunately again some minor problems with the car. That is no problem because we are very comfortable at Maua Garden, a Swiss B &B in Kunduchi beach. On Sunday Ed had his first experience in an internet cafe while Bart and Evert were sliding and sliding at Wet and Wild Water Park.

Sorry for the photos. I hope it will be better next time

3 comments:

Margreeth said...

Wat een mooi verhaal weer, maar ik vind nergens terug hoe en waar je je 50e (?!) verjaardag hebt gevierd. Of komt dat binnenkort met de foto's. Alsnog van harte gefeliciteerd en we vieren in Nederland je 50-en-3-maanden-en-17-dagen-ste verjaardag wel. Succes met de auto en een goede reis verder.

Liefs,

henken said...

ja sarah,
wij zijn ook benieuwd hoe je deze leeftijd heb bereikt of wil het niet weten. je bent echt 50!!!!!!!!
succes en geniet lekker

groeten

rubi said...

hey its rubi
how are u all?
good luck o the voyage
than u can tell use the great adventures u well do,
lucky boyssssssssssssss!!!!!!!
well see u soon
byeeeeeeeee