We’re in Kenya, much to our surprise. Our taxi driver arrived, our airline existed, our various COVID tests and documents were correct, our visas went for a full three months, and there was a guy waiting outside the Mombasa airport to whisk us to Diani, where we are for the next couple of weeks. It […]
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Chaat soup
Today we tried urojo, which is a mango coconut soup with vadas and crispy chatpatta stuff, drizzled with chilli and tamarind, and topped with a skewer or two of grilled beef. It was the first food we had which was tasty, distinctive and local, a trifecta that has largely eluded us (getting even one has […]
Fury at the PM
Daily Mirror, 5 January 2022
Both negative
We went for a careful excursion yesterday, to a cafe which had genuinely good filter coffees. We both had their light roast, I in a kalita wave (in memory of our Cholula cafe, Bartolo – possibly my favourite cafe anywhere) and the GF in a V60. Very pleasant, and it was a nice part of […]
My turn
Today I woke up and realised it was my turn – a fever, weakness, and a heaviness around the chest. The poor GF, still very unwell, had to take over cooking and getting foodstuff, which nearly felled him (it was his first time outside since we arrived, and then he was too out of it […]
Fury at the rules
Daily Star Sport, 3 January 2022
Not disaster
The GF’s test result came back and, to both our startlement, is negative, so he does not apparently have corona. He is also a little better today, very weak, but the fever is down and either I have got the hang of the oximeter or oxygen saturation has improved. Nevertheless it was a day of […]
Fury at the government
Sunday Express, 2 January 2022
Disaster
The GF might have the corona, it seems very likely. we arrived in Stone Town – happily well masked, and by the end of the journey he looked like he was ready to keel over. Then our room wasn’t ready, so we found a rooftop restaurant to wait as he felt less and less well. […]