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When it rains it pours, or: Get out of my pockets!
... to see a lion at every turn. With a look at the clock and a quick speed calculation we realised it was time to high-tail it back to the gate. Accidentally taking another detour, we wound our way around another sharp rocky hill and narrowly avoided cleaning up a few birds that were reluctant to move from their comfortable position on the road. We eventually returned to the main road in good time and took a more leisurely pace. We were fortunate to come across ...
Nairobi Meets Maslow
... the kids seem to be happy and smiling. However, Australian teachers would be in for a shock. There are about 30 students to a class (though the government recommends 50), they sit 4 to an old style school desk in a small corrugated iron room with dirt floors. Of course, there is no cooling, and the toilets are holes in the ground. Children often wear their jumpers and school bags all day to ensure they ...
Tase that? That's the taste of karma.
... wrenching sound of flapping rubber and the jolting wobbles of an uneven car were felt: a flat tire. I am certain that, mixed with the ominous burnt-rubber odour, was the faint essence of karma drifting in the wind. What became even more disappointing than Kevin evoking retribution from the universe was the subsequent discovery he had thought it unnecessary to have a useable spare tyre in the back. With no way of continuing on, and removing the wheel to find both tyre and ...
Stuck in the slow lane
... using rudimentary spring systems to make them operational and deadly. We took a brief look at the temporary cartoonist exhibit; unfortunately, the biting satire was lost on us due to our extremely limited knowledge of Swahili. With a large chunk of the day out of the way we set off to lunch, foolishly throwing ourselves into the mix of some horrendous traffic. Over an hour later and what felt like nary a kilometre travelled, we picked up a car sitter (someone ...
Knocking about Nairobi
... Milimani Backpackers. Now just outside the international airport is a national park, and upon leaving the terminal the first thing I see in the plains are a herd of wild giraffes grazing in the landscape. I am in Africa. During the drive he filled me in on a bit of the local geography, language and fauna - bird life was aplenty with huge Marabou storks nesting in the trees overshadowing the road. Paying particular attention to his driving, I noticed that things weren't as hectic as ...



