Suzi and I set off from Bujumbura at 0140 on Tues 11 October to Dar es Salaam via Nairobi. Arrived in Dar airport fairly relaxed and looking forward to a leisurely lunch before boarding the 3.30pm train to Mbeya on the lake Malawi coast. Kenya airways, the miserable shysters, tried their level best to scupper our plans by losing all of our luggage (along with that of 90% of our fellow passengers). We were brimming with indignant rage as we completed the loss forms and the codified 'what does your luggage look like' laminated sheet sent me into toe hopping fury. Faced with the option of waiting for an indeterminate amount of time in a festering African port Suzi and I jumped into a cab. We had 90mins to replace our carefully procured travel kit before
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