"Moving here is not quite as simple as the British experience of choosing which removal company to use.
For a start, the only goods vehicles allowed to move around in the city during the day are small ‘pick-up’ trucks. We're not sure how many journeys it will take to move our stuff but we are hoping it can be completed in one day. The pick-ups are all open-backed, so as the monsoon is already late there is a real risk of all our things getting soaked.
One difficulty is the driver won't carry any furniture or boxes, so the plan is to hire a group of lads from church to help with the carrying.
Where we live is roughly 200m along narrow alleys and up a flight of stairs. The new place is very similar and doesn't have vehicle access. This means that all our things have to be carried down and up stairs, through narrow gateways and along alleyways to the nearest place the pick-up can reach.
All this in temperatures pushing towards 40°C and a high probability of monsoon rain, so we'd appreciate your prayers.