Lotus Hotel Mombasa

... muzungo Bridget, we were in this local shop having coke and lunch. Next minute i was behind the counter trying to sell the the food to Omar the local muzungo it was quite a laugh, the local,s all has a good time




Another great day in Africa.




Cheers miles

... our car was not roses. Trash soon littered the street sides. Heaps upon heaps of weathered, smashed and sunbaked trash! The car bumped along the pitted roads that claimed the area. Muddy residue splashed about the wheels leaving it's reddish deposits atop the dust on the car we once called white.

Aisha's home was in the ghettos of Mombasa. Barefooted children gathered around the red bricked courtyard while our ...

... in the kitchen and bear children.  The women do not accept this.  They struggle.”  This story that Celina told me weighed heavily on my heart and it’s so true that these women are struggling everyday for the position of women of Africa in hopes of making change, little by little.  I love the fact that I can join the struggle with them because they surely cannot do it alone.  I invite you to join the struggle as well.  You can visit africaheart.com to find more info.

... of back streets that lead no doubt to some slum area. But the city is vibrant in many ways if you care to keep an open mind. Mombasa is excessivly hot and humid though - I'm sure if the City was a tad cooler the frantic pace to do something quickly and get the hell out of there would be far less. History: A strip of coast land, which also included this property, was once under the jurisdiction of the Sultan of Zanzibar and in a treaty with the British, when they ...

... population survive on) for those runners willing to brave the heat and run twice around Mtwapa (about 7kms). But this will be tricky to arrange as the locals are still very wary of me; although I try to spend at least one hour a day in the main part of Mtwapa talking and laughing with them; several of them now call me Mamma Amanda - so I guess it took me 43 years to hear this! I'm also targeting the local press to see if they will come and take a few ...

... s past it's sell by date!) or throw aways, apparently they have a high turnover of shoppers; I think a few of them are buried not far from here - having endulged in one to many mark-downs I guess. Anyway managed to pick up what I assumed was a cabbage, some imported broccoli, some very fallic looking home grown carrots that just pass as orange and not pink! Very grateful that I bought my own bisto gravy granules and packets of cheese sauce from the UK ...

... klar kommen. Wir haben uns natu**lich auch gleich auf den Heimweg gemacht und sind sich** und in einem Stueck im Hostel angekommen. Da wartete dann noch Alex auf uns, ein 72-jaehrig** Russe, d** diagnostizi**t** Reisesuechtig** ist und seit Jahrzehnten mit seinem Fahrrad durch die Weltgeschichte bummelt: Europa, Suedam**ika, Nordam**ika, Zentralasien, Suedostasien, Indonesien, Australien, Nord- und Westafrika. Da fehlen natu**lich noch Ost- und Suedafrika, und die nimmt ...

... i said the size of a 6mth old but is 3 and a half and very sick, she has just shook of TB and is getting stronger by the day, she smiled for the first today then took ill and slept in Hennas arms all afternoon, I took her for a bit and when i went to put her down she howled, i could,nt bear it but a staff member came in and placed her in a seat where she settled, a gust of wind would break this wee dote but here she is, HIV + (we ...

... es Salaam, a cheap nasty one, which stopped everywhere on the way. At every stop, food would be handed through the windows and the floor of the bus quickly became a slurry of egg shells, peels, corn cobs and water bottles. We decided to camp outside the city, instead of staying in suburban Kiriakoo. Friday 15th At 05:30 we rushed off into the city to collect Jenna's airplane ticket from the Swedish Embassy. She had tried unsuccessfully over the last few days to ...

... that the leak occurred from the shower and not the toilet (which was on the opposite side of the bathroom). We explained that it had obviously been happening for some time, lifting the lino tiles to illustrate the point. The manager fussed around the toilet for a while. The next day, with the bathroom and bedroom awash, we got the manager in, explained that this only happened when we showered and we hadn't used the toilet this morning. He had a happy half hour ...