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Another day in Malindi

Sat, 19 Aug 2006 21:14:29 +0430

Yesterday we were squired around town by Ramadan and Dennis. They met us at the internet cafe where we had a Kenyan style lunch (complete with eating with our hands). Then we went for a drive around town in the tuk tuk. We visited a workshop where they make beaded sandals that are sold in all the sh

Malindi continues

Thu, 17 Aug 2006 10:27:13 +0430

Had a good day yesterday, if not wholly successful. We headed off to the internet cafe and after much deliberation with the “tech” and a call to Sri Lanka to Kevin, we were able to get me online with this computer. However, seems their bandwidth isn’t wide enough to handle this website. So you’ll al

Mwembe Resort

Wed, 16 Aug 2006 12:02:04 +0430

Well, we’ve finally made it to the last leg of the journey. Neither of us is ready to come home. It’s been great but I guess we’ll both have to work to be able to continue this lifestyle. Anyways, we took the overnight train from Nairobi to Mombasa which proved to be interesting. We were both annoy

The Camps at Dadaab

Sat, 12 Aug 2006 11:30:00 +0430

We headed out in the morning with a CARE vehicle to the refugee camp called Ifo. Michael accompanied us and arranged to have his assistant who resides at that camp take us around. Upon arrival we were taken to a women’s beading project. The women here are mainly Somali refugees, usually have no mean

Nairobi/Dadaab

Sat, 12 Aug 2006 09:09:27 +0430

Well, we got back to Nairobi safe and sound. We were both pretty tired, so had dinner with Barry, Sue and Tahnee and pretty much hit the hay right afterwards. I hadn’t been feeling well. Tummy upset. Unfortunately it comes with the travel territory. We get used to it. Never happy about it though. T