Electricity

Just as we were closing the house last week and rushing to the aiport, the EDM chappies came to install our 'credilec' (a PAYG system for electricity).  This is not really convenient for us, and we have avoided it as long as possible, but it is now mandatory.  We said it was really not possible to do it then, so they said they'd come back the day we returned.  Lo and behold, they actually showed up just before 8am this morning, installed the little machine, and handed over the card to recharge it.  The machine has 5kw on it, and if we don't get it recharged before that is used up we will be in the dark - but you have to wait until the new card is in the system.  At present we are on minimum usage, and hoping that we can stretch that 5kw until the recharge is available.

It is possible that paying in meticais rather than USD will be cheaper, but it might just mean that we keep running out of credit at inconvenient times like most of our friends seem to.