Narrow escape

We called a car and took it further along Naivasha to the next lake along, formerly a salt lake with flamingos and now freshwater with fish. The restaurant overlooked the small lake, with a couple of warthogs grazing on bent knee by the shore. It was all a little like being at the Punjab Club, […]

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 […]

Kindness

I received some really very sad news today – one of my university professors had died, and he was someone I was really very fond of. His kindness to a quiet, awkward Pakistani student who was going through the tumult of a difficult transition to and through university, as well as all the chaos and […]

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 […]

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 […]