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Disappearing island

Yesterday, at lunch, we’d talked to a boatman and then this morning we went to meet him to take us out to a little sandbank, close enough to the beach that we could probably have swum there, for a spot of snorkelling. The boat was a small single-sailed outrigger boat of the type used on […]

The other Kongo river

We went this early evening to the end of the line, to where the Kongo river meets the sea. It is, of course, the other Kongo river, a rivulet by comparison, but also very historical, as at its mouth is the Kongo Masjid, the first in East Africa. The estuary was a very appealing spot. […]

End to work

Today was my last day of committing to full-time work for one of my clients, which means that from actual 1.5 or 2x work I can go down to roughly full time when all my clients are accounted for. So, looking forward to that, though the large payments were nice. I tried the local interpretation […]