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Published: February 24th 2012
This morning we transferred from Stone Town to Kendwa, which is a small town on the north coast of Zanzibar. Our hotel is right on the blindingly white beach, and although it's a budget hotel, it's still pure indulgence. Hammocks, exotic cocktails (with a daily happy hour lasting for three hours) and massages on the beach. I don't think it could be any more perfect.
I won't waste anyone's time by describing the minutiae of the two days we spent at Kendwa, because there's really nothing I can say other than I spent both days swimming, sunbathing and sinking cocktails. And for the first time since the tour started, I had time to myself, time to think. Time to really look at the world around me. Sometimes I'm very conscious of the constraints that exist when travelling in a group like this, of the fact that there isn't always enough time or space to take both mental and physical photos, so one has to be sacrificed for the other. I instinctively reach for my camera the moment I see something worth taking a picture of, but it's a habit that I'm trying to break. I want to frame these moments,
and the feelings I have, in my mind before capturing them in pixels.
Standing on the beach with the waves around my feet, staring off at the sun resting on the far horizon, I thought about all the things that I've not had time to think about. I savoured the moment. I relived the experiences I've had since leaving England, what now seems so long ago. I allowed myself to miss my family and my friends. It felt good. It felt liberating. I think that coming to Zanzibar was something that I needed on a personal level. I needed the time to be at peace with myself and the world around me, and I got that.
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Charlie Powell
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hey hunni im glad you have found a little oasis on you tour! it looks wonderful and i so wish we were there together but it sounds the perfect thing for you, to have time to think! miss you so much and i cant wait to to talk to you again im hoping it will be soon!!! xxxxxxxxxxxxxx