So here I am in Uganda, the final leg of my East Africa tour. Arrival at the airport was the usual African mayhem, everyone was queuing at the something to declare aisle and no one was going through the nothing to declare aisle, I said to Mike well come on lets just go through. he said NO there is something not right here - lets just join the queue. Of course no one in the world queues as good as us brits do they? so everyone was pushing in and bumping each other - it was a nightmare. It turned out that they were making everyone get scanned before entry to the country due to the somali bombs in July 2010. Well that had been the biggest waste of 30 minutes that I would never get ... read more

Just had to add an extra quick blog in tonight ostrich, camel, ox, beef, chicken, crocodile, ox balls - thats what I had for dinner tonight - Mike wimped out on the ox balls and fed his balls to the stray cat http://www.tamarind.co.ke/restaurant.php ... read more

Jambo (Hi) Have been to the Nairobi Office today, We have been organising the fire training for the staff and preparing the manual handling course for Uganda next week. I spied some construction workers today climbing all over scaffolding today without any harnesses, If they fell they would be gone... very dangerous. There are many street sellers here, they walk up and down the road with anything that they have to sell, in the middle of the road, it could be anything, newspapers, dresses, knickers, water, cd's, boomerangs - literally anything, - can you imagine people walking barefoot up the M4 selling all this stuff :) there would be even more mayhem than there currently is! Dad - Spoke to the hotel staff today and Hurlingham Estate still exists infact it is a very upmarket part ... read more

Finally arrived at Dar Today started out like any other day except Suitbert was up in time for breakfast - maybe that is what upset the ying yang of the day hmmmmm. We went to the Mwanza office and discussed the Fire Escape and alarm needs and we went off for our 2pm flight, when we arrived at the airport we discovered there was no 2pm flight but that we should have gone at 12.40, we were put on the 5pm. we kept ourselves busy watching others getting their flights and having drinks then Mike realised he had lost his best glasses, After almost 2 hours of looking for them phoning people and ripping bags apart I almost begged the gods for something else to go wrong before we got on the plane so that our ... read more

I took my Sunday relaxing by the lake and then moved by the rather disgusting swimming pool (it had been filled with water from the lake) - I moved here to purchase a refreshment and I got speaking to a gent about the pool, he then asked if I knew of any boat rides, I said sorry no I am not on holiday. He said no neither are we - we have the weekend off - they were a group of Volunteer dentists showing tanzanians ow to extract teeth (in clinics of course) the gent (Barry as he turned out to be) went to reception and asked, and sure enough there was a boat ride around Victoria lake and he asked if I would like to join them and of course I said yes, it wouldnt ... read more