Amani Beach Hotel Dar es Salaam

... my head on the table and crashing to the ground, snugly caught up in my bag. <br><br>We made sandwiches while en route, which while a careful balancing act felt like a huge upgrade to making sandwiches in the morning. Some days when we made our sandwiches in the morning the cheese would be melted by the time we ate it, my peanut butter sandwich radiating heat and steaming up the bag I wrapped it in. So this felt like a fresh new alternative ...

... and tourists and lots of people sat clutching their black plastic sick bags close if not on their heaving mouths. On the way back we saw close by 2 whales with their huge black tails out of the water after a breaching and the water spraying up from their spouts so that was a special bonus to end our lovely trip to Zanzibar. back at Dar es Salaam we docked and then walked up the road for 20 minutes to get the little ferry across the harbour. Being peak hour it was packed ...

... managed to fit about 9 changes of clothes into a tiny little bag. I love small girl clothes!! And yes 9 changes... you never know what's going to happen and we are there for one day, one night, one day, one night, one day, one night... then another day so that's AT LEAST 7 outfits!! And I'm now sat in Jay's bungalow trying desperately to upload our photos onto the portable hard drive so if the laptop gets stolen on Zanzibar we'll at least at the photos. Priorities. It is taking ...

... form, I explained that my knowledge of the local language is non-existent as its best. This started a healthy discourse of broken English and the internationally spoken game of charades that was awkwardly ended with one of the men bringing his shy daughter to the front of the group and saying, "Muzungo, my daughta is in loove wit you." I thought it would be a good time to move further down the road. Another entertaining "jambo" resulted in the meeting of ...

... day in Tanzania, we had noticed a few things. Firstly, the frequency and height of speedbumps in the country were unlike any we had come across so far. Seemed every village, town and at times a barren field merited 12 speedbumps each measuring 12m in height...and there are a lot of villages, towns and barren feilds in africa... Secondly, the public transport system in Tanzania seemed to be about each company acquiring the most colourful bus they could lay their hands on and ...

... fine! We were soon on our way again though, until we were stopped in our tracks again by the Police. A Police landrover was speeding towards us on the wrong side of the road, the officer in the back gesticulating wildly for us to pull over. On our inside was a cyclist, it wasnt possible to leave the road. The Police didnt comprehend this and kept on coming, Zak had to brake hard and the Police landrover just squeezed through the gap ...

... si je le revois... je me le fais... Par certains côtés, on peut dire que je me suis dans le pétrin tout seul, que j'aurais pu éviter les ennuis en coupant court à plusieurs reprises. « Tenter le diable » comme pourraient le dire certains, moi j'appelle cela se tester. Je l'ai pris comme tel, le but étant de dominer sa peur, qui en fait, dans bien des ...

... at the driver in the middle of the street and told us to get out of the car, Katy was about to get out but the driver drove off so she got back in! We were arguing and he said that he wanted to go to police so we kind of tricked him by saying  'oh don't worry, my father is a policeman'.  He then said 'oh we are not going to police station I am going to carry on driving!' We told him to stop the car which he did. We negotiated a bit more and finally we made a deal. We ...

... 7.15 - they were so shocked! So we went to bed... 01/09 - I woke up at 6.30 and woke up the girls but they said that they would come later because they were tired from the travelling! I went to Buguruni and they all lined up and said their prayers, the band appeared, they were marching all the way to the classroom! They were a lot more organised than my old school! The teachers said that I should go to class 1B, the kids are sooo sweet. There was a boy with ...

... dating back 3,600,000 years (woot!). They really did look like human footprints, except that one set was really big and another was really small. Not a great deal of explanation. On the wall itself was a tree depicting the evolution of humanity, but the cool thing about this tree was that in addition to the sketched images of the hominids, there were skulls. Sweet! Most entertaining, however, were the school kids. One of the little girls, Antonia ...