http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=egZToiVIDvM&feature=endscreen Video: Travelling through the region of Kenya where I lived, to a Swahili music soundtrack. This video is of driving from Nairobi towards the Kajiado province, in which Kitengela lies. It begins on the Nairobi to Mombasa highway, then takes a turning off south towards Athi River. This road is very similar to the […]
Just before sunset yesterday I left my hotel in Nkrumah Road, Mombasa. I took a tuktuk to the station, booked in and got onto the train. I tried to read my book during the one and a half hour wait that followed, as the train sat in the station, but it was far too hot […]
Last week I spent my remaining time on Diani swimming in the sea, reading (Amitav Ghosh’s The Glass Palace – incredible book!) and eating. In my delight at having a kitchen I cooked three large, warm meals per day, and put on lots of weight, reclaiming all the pounds I had lost during the previous […]