Hotel Le Soleil Beach Kikambala

... to solve every problem that has existed throughout history. At times it gets hard being the only caucasian for miles and dealing with all the attention. My best friends are the village chiefs from around my area which use me as an inspirational speaker at local Baraza's (community meetings). At first it was very intimidating but now I really enjoy it and I think I can make a lasting impression on these peoples lives now the hard part is following through on expectations.

... to look around. We hired a couple of bikes for the day and also cycled round the Aruboko-Sokoke forest. Future note &#8211; it&#8217;s quite hot in Africa and bikes are hard work! We also saw a golden-rumped elephant shrew hopping away in the forest &#8211; it is a strange beast.<br><br>Oh yes, and the other day Lucy was stung (twice!) by a scorpion - no biggie.<br><br>Wish you were here and hope you haven't all got swine flu,<br><br>Baraka &amp; Amina

Malindi is a popular tourist town with scenic beauty, clean white beaches and a lot of history located on the East Coast of Kenya, <br><br>Malindi also referred to as the Coral Coast provides a very nice introduction to the beautiful Kenyan coast. Visitors can experience surfing ...

... a 50p tip, walked us all the way there and sat outside while we ate, hoping to walk us home again, but we said no thankyou we would get a tuk tuk. He asked for our address and telephone numbers, but I am ashamed to say I think I made a mistake with the odd digit in both!<br>Before the meal we saw a local football match and strolled along the white sand beach dodging scorpions.<br>

Swahili for "Bring water to use in the toilet"! Well not sure where to begin; have now spent 3 full days at the Orphanage and it's tough; a mixture of emotions that leave you feeling elated, deflated, humbled, troubled, spoilt, incredibly lucky, incredibly sad, you find yourself crying because you feel so touched and warmed by the boys incredible journeys to find this place and how happy they are now, to crying through sheer bloody ...

... how to find, and four hours later had the cheek to blame us! Their attitude sucked and it was clear to me that they hated men in general. I had previous experience of evicting undesirable hangers-on, once they had overstayed their welcome, so I hatched a plan to get rid of them. It involved Claus and I visiting the Mnarani Ruins at 05:00 the next morning in order to get good light for photography. Saturday 30th I woke up at 04:00 to the now regular beautiful chanting ...

As for the rest of the stay here in Mombasa, it's all going well. Myself and my new best mate David, whos an even bigger lush and cheesy pop queen than me, headed up to Malindi last weekend, about 2 hours up the coast for one night of luxury and hot showers. Bliss!! (See, I haven't changed that much honest... No tea towels on my head anytime soon!) Had a great old evening and ended up in a pub/club called Fermentos, where apparently Naomi Campbell once visited! Apart from the fact ...

... project I'm on has got to be the most needy and challenging ones I've ever come across. It's called Jambo Jipya which means 'Hello Something New'. I'll do a proper account of it with pictures as soon as I can but essentially its a day-home for 87 children that come from the most horrendous of family situations, or no family at all. Most have at least one deceased parent, mostly from AIDS, some of the kids themselves have HIV, some are beaten and abused at ...

... was for our Kenyan snaps to be burned on. The fact that the new photos weren't there only added to the sense of injustice. This incident was followed by a volcanic outburst from Combie which lead to the deployment of New World IT's crack team who after 16 man hours, with an angry Irishman screaming over their shoulders, managed to retrieve a paltry 10 pics. Well, what can you expect from a company whose biggest revenue earners are: 1)downloading ...