Karibu Zanzibar

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Like a true Brit, I shall limit my current comments to the weather. Africa is hot. No surprises there. However, it is coming up to rainy season, and is therefore very windy. This brings me to a dilemma: do I stay inside, wearing long floaty skirts and keeping my hairstyle intact but bake in my own skin, or do I find a shady outside corner and let my hair blow itself into a tangled frizzy knot (despite the presence of hundreds of desperate kirby grips)? I generally choose the latter, letting the cool wind brush over me, keeping my core body temperature at safe levels. I use approximately a pint of conditioner every evening, but it is worth it for keeping my internal organs from melting.



I also choose the shade because until recently I was wrapped in thermals and fleeces in cold, snowy Yorkshire, and my tender British skin needs to acclimatise slowly to the blistering Tanzanian sun. I like to think that in a week or two, I will be reincarnated as a glowing golden goddess, oozing Vitamin D, and sauntering around the island without a sweat patch in sight. Until then, I shall continue to slather myself in suncream, moisturiser and insect repellent, braving the sunlight only en route from air-conditioned office to parasol-protected hammock.

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Comments

[Hilary Layton]

Use of conditioner
Just checking that you're not drinking the conditioner (you say it keeps your internal organs from melting). I don't think it's intended for internal use. Also, might it be quicker just to mix the suncream, conditioner, moisturiser and insect repellent and just bathe in the solution it produces? You could also sell it to tourists. xx

[Jessicaella]

Proofreading team
Yes Carlos noticed that sentence too, didn't you know that conditioner works wonders for the liver?