Failure!

Today we got as far as getting the container on the truck, but still failed to make it to the beach. Loading the container was no small feat due to construction work on the dock pinning us in. We had to move half a dozen other containers to get to ours. However, what thwarted us in the end was a paper banner or across the road for the King's visit on Wednesday. There is a big agricultural field day here on Friday, which the King will attend. Before that, on Wednesday, he will do a trip around all the villages to inspect them. Everyone is busily tidying, painting and putting up ribbons, banners and flags. The governor was due to judge the villages this afternoon so they refused to take their banner down and the driver said that although we could strictly just drive through, he wasn't prepared to do that. So our container still remains on the truck. Should get it tomorrow.