Made it to Nakuru! Left the hotel in Nairobi quite early or the bus station. Got ripped off by the taxi driver, crowded by touts at the station and finally got on a old but still ok bus stopping at Naivasha on the way to Eldoret (much further away). This is 8am, and only a few seats left so told we'd be leaving soon (scheduled departure 8am). 2 hours later and we still haven't moved an inch, sat in my chair trying to read whilst numerous street sellers barged ...

Howdies! Have had quite a journey since leaving Arusha! For starters the Arusha-Nairobi shuttle bus - bus itself was fine, not full so room to spead out and since the lonely planet mentioned that the road was sealed all the way, I was expecting a comfortable journey. How wrong I was. Whichever complete idiot in charge of road planning decided to resurface the road. Great idea you might think, smoother jouney. BUT ALL AT THE SAME TIME??? The whole road was being ...

Do not panic Mr Mannering!! I am in Nairobi. Boo. Being put up in a nice hotel (Sarova Panafric) with dinner on the house and hopefully flying tomorrow morning to zanzibar. Airport was an absolute nightmare - thought Mumbai was bad enough (delayed 8 hrs) but Nairobi was horrible. All connecting flights affected by strikes and a load of passengers going to comoros were in the front of the tansfer desk queue and behaved atrociously. Shouting, aggressive, threate...