Technically our first real impressions of Brazil would be our experience of getting our work visa from the Brazilian consulate in Ghana. This was no mean feat and actually a fair introduction to the monster that is Brazilian bureaucracy. We had never heard of the term ‘apostille’ before the Brazilian tax/immigration consultant mentioned it.
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This will be our last post about Ghana. For completeness I just want to mention a few more things about our time there before we move on to our time in Brazil.
Continue reading “Ghana Round Up”
I’m sure we’ve spoken about our good friends Bethany and Felipe before. I don’t believe in fate and I’m not superstitious but it really has always seemed like we were meant to know them and stay friends no matter what.
Continue reading “Safari time in Mozambique and Eswatini”
Nell was born on April 23rd, 2010, in the county of Essex and shared her birthday with Shakespeare. Little is known of her parentage or siblings but, judging by a DNA test done in later life, it is unlikely that either parent were anything but mixed breeds themselves. The DNA test showed the following results: American Bulldog (expected) 38%, American Staffordshire Terrier (no surprise) 25%, Boston Terrier (unexpected) 12%, Border Collie (very unexpected) 12.5% leaving the remaining 12.5% as ‘other’.
Continue reading “Nell, 23rd April 2010 – 9th Feb 2024. A good dog.”
Ok, yes, it’s been a while. A long while. There’s no excuse really. We just lost the motivation to keep it going. I am writing this while in São Paulo, Brazil at the start of our next adventure but I’m going to catch up on some key things that happened during the rest of our time in Ghana first.
April break and what to do? We thought about a range of different options but I had been thinking about a trip to The Gambia for some time. The reason for this is that my parents visited there twice. In fact, their last trip there was one of their last proper holidays that they took together before my mum was diagnosed with cancer.
Continue reading “A Gamble on The Gambia”
Our drive back to Nairobi was uneventful although I should add to my last post that on the way to Naivasha we got stopped by the police for crossing a solid line which, funnily enough, was the same reason we last got stopped in Myanmar. It is apparently, an easy scam to pull off.
Continue reading “A Kenyan Christmas (Part 2)”
The December holiday at our new school is even longer than it was in our last school at a mouth watering 3 and a half weeks. Here we are in Africa with our dream of going on safari ahead of us but the only problem was cost. It turns out that you can’t actually afford to go on safari for three odd weeks, it’s just too expensive.
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Enough with the depressing dog drama, on to our first week long vacation in Ghana! When I last wrote, I talked about our upcoming trip to Mole National Park, Ghana’s biggest and most well-know park. Everyone who works here goes to Mole eventually as it’s the only place to go to see elephants. Elephants are arguably the most exciting big animal that Ghana has, as it doesn’t really have other big game.
Continue reading “Mole Magic”
I wrote this post originally while on the plane from Bangkok to London and I will copy that post as I wrote it below here. The reality is that a lot more has happened with Nell since that time so I am going to expand the post with some other info from before and afterwards. To be honest, this is one of those memoir posts for us more than anyone else so feel free to skip it
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