Saturday 28th June. Louis had advised on Friday evening that our villa was required for a family and we would be shifting down to the main hotel where he had a room for us near the beach. The shift was made by car and we had breakfast again in the delightful dining room.
Then we moved [...]
Archive for June, 2008
53. Seychelles 3
June 29, 2008
52. Seychelles 2
June 29, 2008
Friday June 27th We walked down the steep hill to the hotel for breakfast. How can we describe such a perfect setting … sitting in the first floor dining room looking out onto the sea, small boats, white sand and coconut palms. All of this was seen through wide open white painted windows. The background [...]
51. Seychelles 1
June 29, 2008
Thursday June 26th Nairobi airport was busy and the 50 metre queue into the terminal was followed by similar queues for check in and immigration. It was just as well we had allowed for the full three hours required or we might have been staying longer in Kenya than intended. The flight left on time [...]
50. Nairobi. 3 days
June 25, 2008
Monday 23 June.
A new day and another new driver. Alex was at the hotel door at 9.00 am to take us to the Nairobi Hospital for Chris to have a review with the doctors. We thought Alex had been sent by the people who had arranged our hotel accommodation on Sunday evening, they said they [...]
49. Zanzibar. 5
June 25, 2008
Chris awoke in quite a bit of pain from the rib and we decided we would have to change our flights to Sunday if possible so that she could get back to the Nairobi Hospital for a checkup. There-by hangs a tale. Warwick went back to the Kenya Airways office to make the change, was [...]
48. Zanzibar 4
June 25, 2008
Friday 20th June.
Another beautiful Zanzibar day and breakfast overlooking the water, watching the passing parade of local people and fisherman preparing for their day. We had planned to do the Spice Tour in the morning however Chris was again favouring her sore ribs and we decided a ride in a bus over bumpy roads was [...]
47. Zanzibar 3
June 25, 2008
Thursday 19th June.
While at breakfast we spoke with a fellow from Pennsylvania who operates a Christian TV station and has been over here to help a Tanzanian start up a station in Zanzibar. The US station is Cornerstone TV and when he realised we were NZ’ers he asked if we knew of his friend Trevor [...]
46. Zanzibar 2
June 23, 2008
46. Zanzibar 2.
Wednesday 18th June. Yes, we had breakfast on the terrace by the beach with a lot of activity on the sand . Nearby a ship was being unloaded from a ramp onto the sand and a lot of other fishing and tour boats were moored close by. There was a feeling of wonder [...]
45. Zanzibar 1
June 23, 2008
Tuesday 17th June. We left for Nairobi airport in an ‘on-time’ taxi. We stopped at a petrol station and in order for him to buy the petrol we were asked to pay the taxi driver in advance. We arrived at the airport with plenty of time to make another small ticketing change as we were [...]
44. Kenya 4
June 16, 2008
Sunday 15th June We slept in until around 7.30 and then after a wonderful hot solar outside shower were treated to a cup of coffee on our verandah before breakfast in the dining room. The staff looked after us so well and we had such a good time there we didn’t want to leave. We [...]
