It was the full moon last night and I worked till fairly late and then the GF had a late meeting. After I finished work I finished the book I’d been reading, Dust by Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor. It’s very well regarded, but I didn’t like it particularly. I thought it far, far too long and […]
Pub and palace
Yesterday evening our cook took us on a little tour of the village – something he does for the backpacker lodge as well, so it’s a fairly well trodden route, with stops that are intended to introduce visitors to points of interest for donations, future stays, buying drinks etc. It was quite pleasant, and interesting […]
Rasta lunch
This afternoon, our boat guy, a rastafarian came over to take us to his restaurant. This was down a path we’d never been down, through small tree-covered valleys, in a village about 10 minutes away, down small criss-crossing trails that would not boggle Google Maps quite thoroughly. The place itself was up the side of […]
Luxury living
We arrived in Kilifi yesterday evening, and life has suddenly taken a turn for the luxurious. We have a little house with its own small swimming pool under an immense baobab tree. Just above the pool is a wide veranda with a couple of sofas and a dining table, so this is probably where we […]
A longish journey
We drove from Diani to to Mombasa and on to Kilifi today. Before we drove out, our Airbnb host turned up, freshly arrived from Christmas with her family in Austria. She seemed very pleasant and talkative, gave some recommendations for Kilifi, and I took the opportunity to suggest a daily emptying of the rubbish. A […]
Final acts
Last night we watched the final episode of the first season of Succession. A very entertaining TV programme, though not yet approaching the greats. I understand that this may change in the second or third season. I was correct in my prediction as to where Kendall and his father would end, and correct in spirit […]
Full moon
It was the full moon tonight, though very different from a month ago on Zanzibar. Here the moon rose when it was still light, but still over the water, and going through ghostly pale pinks and blues until it became clear and white. There were some clouds, but the light shone on the water. It […]
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 […]