{"id":3340,"date":"2020-07-04T13:07:39","date_gmt":"2020-07-04T11:07:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wander-world.de\/?p=3340"},"modified":"2021-07-19T16:25:52","modified_gmt":"2021-07-19T14:25:52","slug":"africa-and-europe-parted-by-a-little-virus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wander-world.de\/?p=3340","title":{"rendered":"Africa and Europe parted by a little virus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Hello, Bonjour and Servus <\/strong>still from Germany, unfortunately I couldn’t move to Cape Town yet. Mid-March I applied for my working permit at the South African embassy and I was very close of stepping into a plane and move to the African continent. Just before this vicious little virus, called Corona, had made an appearance in Europe. However, I had some hope that the embassy would still work its way through my visa application, even when I read the statement by president C. Ramaphosa that no tourist visa shall be further worked on. By mid-May I received a big letter that I recognized to be from the embassy. It contained my passport but no visa, no other explanations, nothing. I checked my passport 10 times and more but still no visa that I could find. Such a dissapointing answer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By now, I still haven’t received<\/strong> any other Information from the embassy, they finally opened up again but can’t tell me anything. So, I suppose once they will start working on visa applications the whole process will start again. This is really frustrating. But luckily I get to start my new job for the company in Cape Town from my home office here in Germany. This surely won’t be easy as I don’t know anyone from my team or any other colleagues. And how it looks like at the moment, it seems there won’t be any international flights to South Africa any time soon. With the embassy still not working on any visa applications, I am a bit clueless when this journey will actually start. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the meantime <\/strong>what am I doing during these times when I am fully ready to go, longing for Africa but can’t fly to any of the countries I want to? Well, I started reading plenty of guiding and tracking books that explain specific features for typical African animals, their tracks, calls and even the different grasses growing in Southern Africa. Also, I am glad to be able to participate in the fun digital tracking games by James Varden<\/a> from Ride Zimbabwe. Every now and then he is posting tracks that he has found in the bush with the question which animal belongs to the spoor. It surely is fun and a challenge trying to match the picture to one of the tracks in my books. Besides, I exchanged with Josephin on my Cape Town adventure on her podcast, which surely was lots of fun. You can listen to it on her Bushbaby podcast<\/a> channel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n