Yesterday I went ashore for a walk, with the intention of taking photos of the beaches and the mud brick houses in the nearby village - the sun wasn't shining when I took this one you see here, and I wanted some blue sky pics to make people jealous!But I ended up spending the whole time hanging out with Yusufu, Hassan, and another young boy whose name I have forgotten. One of them was building a house in the sand when I came along, so I asked him if I could j...

Today Mum and I walked into the village to visit the butcher's / internet cafe / bus booking office etc. It's like stepping back in time, with a booking office using carbon copy paper rather than computers, and everything's just so basic... I love it. While mum went to the tailors to get some wet weather gear repaired - by a man who sat outside and used one of his old-school Singer sewing machines to do it - I got to make friends with more gorgeous l...

So I arrived in Mombasa yesterday after a long, budget flight from Bangkok to Nairobi and a much shorter and much more luxurious business class flight from Nairobi to Mombasa thanks to my lovely mother who didn't want me to have to wait an extra few hours in the Nairobi airport for the next flight with available economy seats.In Mombasa we got adopted by a tour guide who decided we needed a tour so just came up and began walking beside us, directing us to som...