Saturday, March 11, 2006

Going South...

Hi people,

This is a small experiment with this new technology. Hopefully this will allow me to keep some of you people back in Europe informed about my travels and adventures in South Africa.


For those of you who don't know, I'm heading off to Cape Town on Tuesday to start on a 3-month assignement. It all looks very promising: beautiful country, great city, interesting work. But there is also still alot that remains to be sorted out- like accomodation.

I'll be working with a renewable energy company down there- helping with various tasks- but also with running a local office of an international renewable energy network.

Incidentally, I am also escaping a relapse of winter in Munich (see picture), for which Cape Town is perfect (it is late summer down there). The pictures further down the page are from my visit there in January (which was clearly successful from a professional as well as a personal point of view)

More news and pictures to follow soon....




5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hey Maurice,

Great idea with the blogpage. Good luck with finding a place, and of course for your work in Cape Town. Looks like you will have ample opportunity to show off your exquisite project-management skills!!

Stay green.

Fabien

Anonymous said...

Hi Mo,

könnte zwar auch auf englisch schreiben, mache es aber trotzdem auf deutsch :-)

Ist aber trotzdem eine gute Idee. Ich hoffe, dass demnächst dann noch mehr Bilder von SA zu sehen sind.

Pati

Anonymous said...

good, at least this way I get to know what you're up to...you never call...;)
Have fun and Good luck!

Dein Schwesterchen

P.s. I have placed a link on my page to this one.

Anonymous said...

Maurice you successful bastard. Here I am trying to follw the middle path and you slap me round the face with images of your success. Why can't you live somewhere more down to earth like dudley?

Looks amazing tho...after winter in uk even seeing the sunlight on a picture makes me wonder what the hell I am doing here....

over and out.

Steve.

Maurice said...

The "baboon atacking car" photo does indeed sound interesting. I also have one in fact, but since he was atacking your side of the car, I think you might have got the better angle.

I managed to top the wrong-turn-into-Langa, with getting off a bus in Khayelitsha. Luckily I was there with a local though (and it wasn't the middle of the night).

Maurice