Mud, mud, glorious mud...Part 1

Admiring the bottles of tomatoes stacked up high in the factory

Two of the ladies, filling the jars with herbs, cucumbers and tomatoes. The smell was wonderful.

Sorting the tomatoes and filling up the jars

Oops...let's play stuck-in-the-mud

The World bank staff getting literally bogged down in work

Just when I thought all this travelling malarkey was getting a bit boring, they brought on the fun. Yesterday we had an afternoon trip to a bottling factory; it was to be followed by a trip to another winery (the last one for us was with the Norwegians, in case you think this is all the World Bank do) and then a meal. What they didn't tell us was that after the factory we would be going to a small farm to see where the vegggies came from. and what they also didn't tell us was that in order to get to this farm we would be travelling by coach down a very muddy road. What followed was an hour-an-a-half of amusement as we watched the coach first start skidding in the road, then, after offloading us all into the mire in our ill-prepared footwear, trying to turn around and come back. This is when the real fun started, as the coach ended up with its front right wheel up in the air and the rear end well and truly stuck. Eventually a tractor came to the rescue and hauled it out, with a bunch of farm-hands pushing from behind. I'll try and upload the video, but it probably won't work. But here are a few pictures anyway. of course the only thing anyone will be talking about after this 3 day retreat is the day we got stuck in the mud...