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Caption: In Solitary Thinking Is Strange
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Caption: Getting away from the rat race, on that idyllic desert island, no one to harangue me.
Patchy signal at best and no wifi.
Even though only a few short days it's enough to reset the frame that we are so quick to assemble and shove everything through.
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Caption: A Hard Reset
Thoughts are bloody strange things. They get in the way. Being able to focus isn't easy and how the Buddhists do it is beyond me.
That's one for a longer trip!
Sandwiched between time to relax, time to reflect and time to fret about having time.
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Caption: Mozambiquan Spitting Cobra
And more land mines planted than anywhere else. I didn't see either of them but I could sense a presence. You know what that's like.
I was in a remote part of Mozambique.
Very remote.
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Caption: 'Naja Nigricollis Mossambica' or Spitting Cobra is considered one of the most dangerous snakes in Africa.
Just like the infamous Rinkhals, it can spit venom with deadly accuracy over a silly distance.
Not good.
It's incredible what you think about when your roof is made of grass.
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Caption: Land mines make you think too.
Their impact inside your brain is even more ridiculous.
Even though I only walked on sand tracks (that had clearly had countless 4 wheel drive vehicles over them) I still felt my next step was my last.
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Caption: In 1992 as it emerged from 16 years of civil war, Mozambique had won the dubious distinction of being - along with Angola, Afghanistan, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Cambodia - one of the five most heavily mined nations on Earth.
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Caption: The bite of both ideas cause severe local destruction. To the people and to your mind.
Now, early in 2015, Mozambique may soon be the first of the five to be declared 'impact-free'.
Whatever that actually means.
Inhambane, Mozambique