Before heading to breakfast this morning there was time to pet the hotel cat while waiting for our guide and minibus to arrive from outside the zone. He seemed to love the company so I guess there aren’t many visitors to the hotel although from the feel of various cuts […]
Tag: School
Africa Day 4 – Gilgil to Eldoret
This morning we got up early and started getting breakfast together when, on time, the baboons arrived. Den decided to scare them away by running at them waving cooking utensils above his head and somehow I got volunteered to join in to stop them stealing food, raiding the bins etc […]
“Table for 18 please”
Right now we should still be in the school in Gibeon but we decided to leave due to the ongoing issues that I mentioned in my last post. We did as much as we could for the school and enjoyed every moment there but the Principal was making us feel […]
Gibeon project – week 1
We’ve been in Gibeon around a week now and are having a great time in some respects but not in others which I’ll explain more about in this post. After leaving the hostel last week we made our way into the city centre. Our main priorities were to exchange money […]
I’m ready for Namibia
[Please note: This is a re-transcript of my original notes from the expedition to Namibia in 2002 combined with the notes/blog from another member as my original diary was lost. It was also edited in 2016 to remove photos of one of the group members – see my post containing […]