Short: Help out Jonathan, Drive to Senga Bay, Meet Mortimer, Relax
Long: The first day we were at Nkatha Bay we met a British guy named Jonathan. He’s in Malawi traveling with his wife, and had just purchased a Toyota pickup which he intends to use to drive to Mozambique. The first day we met him he was dressed in an orange sarong, naked from the waste up. He is an interesting character. He had four mechanics come in from a city an hour away and they have been working on his car for three days. This morning we gave Jonathan a lift to his car, and supplied him with some of our petrol to see if the car would start. It wouldn’t start. The mechanics assured him it would start, and asked him to meet them at the petrol station in town. We gave him a lift to the petrol station and then departed south for Senga Bay.
Long: The first day we were at Nkatha Bay we met a British guy named Jonathan. He’s in Malawi traveling with his wife, and had just purchased a Toyota pickup which he intends to use to drive to Mozambique. The first day we met him he was dressed in an orange sarong, naked from the waste up. He is an interesting character. He had four mechanics come in from a city an hour away and they have been working on his car for three days. This morning we gave Jonathan a lift to his car, and supplied him with some of our petrol to see if the car would start. It wouldn’t start. The mechanics assured him it would start, and asked him to meet them at the petrol station in town. We gave him a lift to the petrol station and then departed south for Senga Bay.
Senga Bay is the closest lakeside village to Lilongwe, and we figured a good place to meet Mortimer. It worked quite well. We arrived into Senga Bay around 4pm and Mortimer arrived only thirty minutes later. Mortimer lives in Munich, and will be traveling with us for the rest of the trip. As luck would have it Mortimer is also an amateur photographer, and kitted out with a great camera. We plan on making use of his telescopic lens to offer more close-ups of “village life”.
We decided that we would leave for Mozambique the next day and try and make the coast in two days. After discussing this plan with the owner of Wheelhouse Marina, the place we are staying, we decided this was feasible. However, we were also informed that Mozambique does not like to issue foreign visas at the border, and that we should go to the Mozambique Embassy in Lilongwe to attain one. Despite the wasted time, we decided it would be best to drive to Lilongwe the next morning and then head for the border. After a dinner and a toast to Mortimer’s arrival we headed to bed.
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