Walkabout - The long way home

First of all sorry for the 2 weeks of no news - island life is great for many different things (mainly relaxing), but one thing it is not good for is internets! Especially Zanzibar, which has had no electricity for over 2 months now! So where am I now??? In Dar Es Salaam, just got back from Zanzibar this morning! Lamu was fantastic.. really the best place I've been so far by a long way! Zanzibar was more beautiful in the classic sense.. but Lamu had more style and was less commercialized (at least where we stayed). For the first few days in Lamu we did get hawked a couple of times a day by captains offering dhow trips.. but it's such a small town, that they all recognized us after the 3rd day! The predominance of Islam on the island does however mean that there are only about 2 places (in the Lamu town itself) to get a drink, one is called roof top bar, the other is at the police canteen! On our 1st day we went there for a beer there and ended up eating, then playing vo...

I'm now in Lamu, an island off the coast of Kenya (north of Mombasa) it's a great little island with a lot to see and do... stunningly beautiful! Here's how I ended up here and what I'm doing: From Nairobi: I left for the train to late - by matatu of course! I thought I was gonna be late and was practically running through Nairobi to the station. Of course I wasn't late! In fact it would be another 2hrs before the train actually set off. Anyway I ended up in a carriage with some really interesting people - Pavel (from the Czech Republic), Wes (from California) and Vincent (Kenyan). I was really looking forward to the next morning where we'd eat a nice full English breakfast while checking out the man-eating lions of the Tsavo National Park. Unfortunately, and possibly the only time in the history of the train's operation, we were pretty much on time, and that meant that most of the Tsavo had whizzed by while we were asleep. Anyway so we ate the bre...