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By JoeMalawi
October 14th 2009
Arrival in Malawi Africa » Malawi » Southern » Blantyre
I arrived in Malawi on Thursday, after only 15 or 16 hours of travelling... The flight was OK but came with the usual problems (Small seats, bad food, TV not working) but this was more than made up for in the flight from Nairobi to Lilongwe where the plane was very empty and so I was able to have 3 seats to myself, and have a proper sleep for a few hours rather than dose off wondering if I was going to fall on the guy on one side and the spectacular views of Kenya’s mountains out of the window. I [View Full Entry]

JoeMalawi - Joseph Lloyd | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: October 14th 2009 | 62 Views | [diary=444906]


The Lilongwe-Blantyre run is clearly the flagship bus route in all of Africa, as I pay $20 for a journey that's not even 4.5 hours - more noteworthy and incongruous is that the bus has AC and a toilet. For free, we get views of various inselbergs rising out of the green countryside. The landscape here really doesn't end with Lake Malawi. Blantyre is as lacking in cheap accommodation as Lilongwe, and I gravitate to the only place anyone ever mentions - Doogles. The staff are unfriendly and the rooms are poor value for money, but its proximity to the bus [View Full Entry]

Jabe - John McCabe | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
671 Words | 1 Comment(s) | 18 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s)
Published: October 13th 2009 | 253 Views | [diary=425232]

Detail
Saint Michael and All Angels Church
View from the bus from Lilongwe

By Pennie
February 2nd 2009
Construction Malawi Style Africa » Malawi » Southern » Blantyre
Construction in Malawi [View Full Entry]

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Published: February 2nd 2009 | 70 Views | [diary=369670]

shaping the bricks
P1010281
firing the bricks

By Pennie
February 2nd 2009
Zomba Plateaux Africa » Malawi » Southern » Blantyre
Zomba Plateaux [View Full Entry]

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Published: February 2nd 2009 | 39 Views | [diary=369672]

an african violet for Violet
Stream near the trout farm
butterfly falls

By Pennie
February 2nd 2009
Retail Therapy Africa » Malawi » Southern » Blantyre
Retail Therapy [View Full Entry]

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Published: February 2nd 2009 | 51 Views | [diary=369669]

Fancy Hat
Game
guaranteed not to cause an electrical fire

By krstnhsy
January 31st 2009
Jan 09 Africa » Malawi » Southern » Blantyre
This month has been very SLOW. I guess looking at the pictures it appears that I have done a lot, but I feel like I have not. The students were supposed to arrive back to school January 5th. Unfortunately they have not yet returned. I do not want to get into too much detail right now because I think that things have become political with the elections coming up in a few months…but it all has to do with the student’s school fees. Anyway, the school year ends before the first week in April in all of the Christian Health Association [View Full Entry]

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Published: January 31st 2009 | 495 Views | [diary=368951]

Killing chickens...
Falice and Me with Chicken
Falice and Me and the plucking...

By Pennie
January 22nd 2009
Updates Africa » Malawi » Southern » Blantyre
So I haven’t updated my blog in a while…… The rains have well and truly come. For a couple of weeks before Christmas it rained almost constantly and I was beginning to think that my plans for Christmas by the lake would be a literal wash out; and was feeling rather bad at having invited Sarah to come and spend the time with me just to look at the rain. There were absolutely no signs of Christmas anywhere in Malawi - well save the guy in the Santa hat in Blantyre in November and carols in Shoprite - you would [View Full Entry]

Pennie - Pennie Blackburn | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: January 29th 2009 | 117 Views | [diary=365942]

A Room with a View
the view from Ngala
Our Room

By Pennie
January 22nd 2009
Gerald Durrel's Bathroom? Africa » Malawi » Southern » Blantyre
I don’t know what it is with my bathroom but it is like a Zoo! Well actually I do know what it is - the drain from the bath goes directly outside my bathroom window and directly into the drain it is clearly at sufficiently a shallow angle to allow any and all animals smaller than drain size to come in as well water to go out. On a more or less daily basis I have any number of bugs coming in. Of course you will know that spiders are my least favourite; but fortunately Steph is completely unphased by [View Full Entry]

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Published: January 29th 2009 | 94 Views | [diary=365945]

disspearing down the plug hole
l'escargot anyone?
perhaps too friendly?

By pnltravels
November 15th 2008
Truth Be Told Africa » Malawi » Southern » Blantyre
Truth be told - we are tired. The punishing bus journeys of Mozambique exhausted us. In one case, we were on the bus at 4 am and arrived to our destination at 6:30 pm. In hindsight (good ol' hindsight), we would have headed for Malawi after Vilankulos. The soul-crushing bus trips to the north and Ilha de Mozambique just weren't worth it in the end. Don't get me wrong, Mozambique Island is nice to visit, but only if you fly up the country. The journey to Nampula was very much like the rest of the bus trips - long, hot, uncomfortable [View Full Entry]

pnltravels - Peter & Laini | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: November 15th 2008 | 178 Views | [diary=339244]

Ilha de Mozambique
Ilha de Mozambique
Slave Memorial

By bmiller4764
October 14th 2008
Lilongwe down Africa » Malawi » Southern » Blantyre
I was walking home from the hospital the other day, and had a strange feeling - normalcy. It's similar to when I realized that I stopped looking up all the time while walking around Chicago after moving there. This doesn't feel like home, but it does feel like I live here, however transient. The driving isn't intimidating, the vendors aren't annoying, the beggars aren't surprising, my lack of anonymity isn't new. The last week was probably my best since I left. I spent three days at Kamuzu Central Hospital in Lilongwe. Lilongwe is the capital of Malawi, about the size of [View Full Entry]

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Published: October 14th 2008 | 176 Views | [diary=334148]

sweaty self-portrait
this stage is okay


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