When coming to Zanzibar one is told to expect all sorts of interesting, bowel-distressing, general health-reducing, occasionally fatal diseases and experiences. Malaria, Yellow Fever, (little ebola going around in Uganda...), a batch of cholera here or there, jiggers: really fun: you can see them wiggling around merrily laying their eggs in your feet (in reality you don't usually get as far as the wiggle stage... a friendly neighbor will take a knife to your toe and start digging before that happens...) being in any kind of moving vehicle: rocks, dogs, cats, other people, other cars, yawning precipices -- all aimed directly for and then swerved away from (in most cases) at the last possible instant. - The ultimate game of chicken. (In a recently relayed Kate adventure ... when asked why she would not re-board
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