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...