Cameron's Mozambican Kiva Fellowship – The Story
Posted in Maputo on Aug 24th, 2009
The Maputan Ex-pat community often complains about not going out to enough “real” Mozambican establishments. I don’t have this problem as most of my friends are local Mozambicans who take me to the most Mozambican of Mozambican spots. At this point my favorite bar in Maputo is called the Casa da Cultura (the house of [...]
Posted in General on Aug 17th, 2009
Friends, family, employees, ex-girlfriends,
Mosamba.com is officially in the running to be named the best 1st person, personal account, Kiva Fellows blog in the blogsphere. Through a lengthy process my friend Cissy and I have determined that our blogs are the two very best Fellows blog and are now ready to duke it out to determine [...]
Posted in Maputo on Aug 16th, 2009
I spent two hours reading in a garden with this view
And then spent several more hours eating, drinking, chatting in this garden with my friend Cecilia from Peru.
Not bad, right?
Posted in Books, Maputo, mozambique on Aug 16th, 2009
Yeah, me too! Yesterday when I arrived in Maputo I realized that I had left my book (King Leopold’s Ghost) in Boane, a 1.5 hour bus ride away. Fear not, just buy another one. Maputan sidewalks offer a literary selection that rivals Moe’s (on telegraph in Berkeley, CA) at a fraction of the cost. I’m [...]
Posted in Maputo on Aug 16th, 2009
A couple weeks before my Moz departure two of my friends, Tim and Kirsten, were taking a gander at my Mozambique lonely planet book (which by the way is about 50 pgs thick, not much is known about this place). What was the most interesting thing they found in the book? Ilha da Inhaca, Pemba, [...]
Posted in Maputo on Aug 16th, 2009
Someone once told me that my sister was getting married to a Swede. It was many years ago, and I’m not sure if I believe that person because it has yet to happen. Either way, yesterday while wondering the streets of Maputo I ran into the Swedish Embassy. Here is a photo of the Embassy [...]
Posted in Travel, mozambique on Aug 11th, 2009
When asked “what do you want to be when you grow up?” as a wee little 1st grader a lot of thoughts came to my mind. I wanted to be like Christopher Columbus or Vasco da Gama, sail on ships, explore new lands and drink beer with peg legged salts (not slaughter the natives). It [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 19th, 2009
Today I went to Maputo to eat pizza! Well, maybe that oversimplifies my motives for taking a pernicious ride on an overfilled minibus into the capital, but diversifying my normal diet of rice, bread, beer and an occasional serving of chicken certainly was close to the top of my list of things to do. [...]
Posted in Maputo, Uncategorized, mozambique on Jul 15th, 2009
Here are a couple shots I took yesterday that in my opinion are quintessentially Maputan. Most construction in Maputo dates back to the Portuguese days and it shows. Facobol is by far my favorite. I have a romantic view that the Facobol billboard is some sort of soccer ad from the 70s that has regally [...]
Posted in Travel on Jun 15th, 2009
It’s 5:42am, time to get going. For the next several days I’ll be on my grizzly, 5-leg, journey to Maputo, Mozambique. Stops will be made in Montreal, London, Doha and Johannesburg. Prolonged stops will be made in London and Johannesburg. In London I’ll zip into the City of London for a quick coffee or fish [...]
