Picking up the Story(line)

Yes, the BunduBoere have not been eaten by a lion or some cannibals. We are still very much alive.

Much has happened since the last post on our blog.

I had to go to Gaborone, Botswana for some work and decided to drive up so that Regina could go with me. Just as well because instead of the planned 4 days my stay was extended to 10 days. We stayed in very beautiful accommodation, on a small holding south of Gaborone. Regina became quite a boffin on the birds of Gaborone because she spent most of her time at the bungalow.

In the mean time I was offered a contract to work in Lagos, Nigeria. So the Saga continues. I arrived in Lagos on Saturday night andd have been working from 0800 to well after 20:00 most evenings.

I can already see that I will have lots to write about here. For example, I stay with a number of colleagues in a very nice apartment, attached to a huge villa, in one of the better areas in Lagos. In contrast to that the road that we travel to our office, just 1 km away, is so bad that in places one really need a 4x4 to get through.

The temperature varies between a night-time low of about 23 and high of 35 degrees Celsius. The humidity is so high that my glasses fog up when I leave an air conditioned building.

The traffic can be quite horrific. We sometimes have to travel to remote sites to telecoms sites. A trip of just 5 km can take more than an hour because here are no enforceable traffic rules. We have drivers that take us where we need to be and they drive much more aggressive than any taxi in South Africa can ever hope to. However, in the couple of days that I have been here, I have not yet seen any accidents.

As you can see there is much to write about. More about Lagos at a later stage.