It seems like it’s been so long since I have been able to just sit and write for the blog that I don’t even know where to begin… I didn’t realize how internet dependant we were until it was gone for these past few weeks! Communication is such a great blessing over here! It’s our constant connection to family and friends back home and we have missed hearing from you all and being able to share with you what’s going on here throughout the week. We have made the move to Moshi, with probably one truck load left in Arusha that [View Full Entry]

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(This entry was posted on 27 March 2007 - we are still experiencing Blog-lag.) No, not Olduvai, as you may have come to know it, but Oldupai. Oldupai is a Maasai word for a local cactus that grows in the area. Early Europeans mispronounced - or misspelled, rather - the name and now the world knows Oldupai as Olduvai. I have wanted to visit Oldupai for a long time for many of the same reasons I wanted to visit Lascaux (see previous blog entry: Time Machine....). The exhibit at Oldupai is very basic and not what I [View Full Entry]

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Hello all! Have been in Moshi, Tanzania for less than a week but I am absolutely loving it and already know that 3 weeks here is not going to be enough. I have 2 weeks after the project before I fly so i'm half thinking about staying for another week here. As i flew into Kilimanjaro airport from Nairobi we flew right past Mt Kilimanjaro. It was absolutely stunning. I also have an awesome view of it from our balcony. It totally dominates the skyline here. I have however made a definite decision not to climb it. It is sooooo big [View Full Entry]

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So, after a number of months trying to convince people to gamble online, I decided I needed another injection of adrenaline and set off for a couple of weeks in Africa. A two legged trip, Kilimanjaro and Zanzibar (both in Tanzania), was decided upon in a monent of madness in a boozy Covent Garden bar. As luck would have it, a trio of Norwegians, two of whom I initially met on the Inca Trail, were up for it too. I dusted off my rancid fleece trousers, stocked up on immodium, and pickled some herring in preperation for my next adventure. Week [View Full Entry]

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Hello everyone, it seems like a while since I updated my blog, and a lot has certainly happened since. Firstly I have suffered from the evil African stomach bug for the last week, meaning that I have been unable to drink any beer or eat anything with any flavour, and to rub it in everyone went to the local curryhouse at the weekend too. However the last few days I seem to be much better, but one of my friends has convinced me to try and avoid alcohol until after my kilimanjaro climb....perhaps. Ok, secondly, I have moved projects. On friday [View Full Entry]

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Ok, so thats one of the essential things done then. Safaria was awesome, id love to tell you the names of the places we visited but i cant spell them, all I will say is that the Serengeti was too far away for us to do in a weekend and too expensive. We went to three parks in 3 days, and some of them were amazing. There are a lot fo stories to tell on this blog, and I only have ten minutes left on the computer so I will add photos at a later date. Well first of all, there [View Full Entry]

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Although we have been in Africa now for 6 weeks, and whilst we certainly know we are in another continent, we weren’t going to really feel like we were here until we had been on Safari. So needing a break from the school and time to recharge the batteries after what has already been a long 6 weeks, we decided to head off to the local Arusha National Park to do a safari and spend the rest of the weekend relaxing in one of the lodges. Arusha is actually quite close to most of Tanzania’s big game parks with Ngorongoro Crater [View Full Entry]

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Sit back, get ready for a good story, and look at the pictures of the result of several months of work. You might want to have a tissue handy just in case! The project started in June of last year with a simple request for scraps; leftovers from projects that no one was going to use, or even fabric that had been purchased for something special but got pushed aside and never used. I was expecting a few boxes of scraps; maybe some half used spools of thread, and hopefully even some needles and scissors. What I received was hundreds of [View Full Entry]

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written by Mister Stuart R The Mountain Kilimanjaro is a massive, hulking mountain dominating the plains of Northern Tanzania. At 5,895m (19,339ft), it is the highest free standing mountain in the world and the highest point in Africa. The mountain is an old volcano with two distinct craters - Kibo and Mawenzi. Mawenzi is the more dramatic, with towering rugged crags and incredible tightrope ridges. Kibo is higher than Mawenzi, but appears more docile, displaying a classic steep sided crater structure. As well as being the home to the highest summit on Kilimanjaro, U [View Full Entry]

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We spent an hour or so in Arusha's town before the drive to Kenya. Here we had a rather surreal experience of sitting in an internet cafe next to a Masai warrior in the usual full dress. And we were also there when our new friend Laura found out the extremely welcome news that she's about to move to New York. So Congratulations for that, Laura. At the Kenyan border the tourist-tat sellers were perhaps the most persistent and aggressive we've come across. For some reason, Ed's parents bought us a stick of Skegness rock each for Christmas and surprise surprise [View Full Entry]

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