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Beach encounters

We went for our evening walk along the beach and, on the way, got accosted rather unpleasantly by a man selling bracelets. He was quite aggressive and walked along, rather too close, as we were about to go down a narrow and hidden path, lined with tall fences and bush, so I turned on my […]

Evening stroll

The highlights of the day were: tamarind juice in the afternoon an evening stroll on the beach a tiramisu brought home to have with an episode of Succession The not-highlights were: a working day which caused some annoyance as senior management destroyed much of what I had worked on on the very day of the […]

Truly dire

An astonishingly poor meal today from a very expensive restaurant. One of the only times (perhaps the only time ever?) I sent a dish back. This was at one of the expensive beach resorts so I didn’t have very high expectations of the food, but I was surprised when my fish tacos turned out to […]

Hunt for a beach

After a bit of work, we took a rickshaw south to a fishing collective we’d been recommended, there to have lunch. I do like this way of travelling around: just amble out and in less than a minute a rickshaw will arrive and take you off. We undoubtedly get overcharged, but it’s worth it for […]

Joining the 21st century

The GF and I decided to join the 21st century today by opening an MPesa account. We also got our mobile phone SIMs, of course. But the MPesa is what is exciting. We went to a mobile phone shop where I remarked to the GF what a pleasure it is sometimes to see a really […]

Great works

I finished a book I was reading and it was spectacular. It’s part of my East African season and I couldn’t remember as I was reading it which of the two Kenyan female authors it was by – the older one who wrote shortly after independence, or the recent one, a young hope. It was […]