Greetings from Nairobi! Temperatures in the high 70s or 80s, nice and sunny! We get Sky, CNN and South African channels on the TV here, so I'm able to keep up with the news and sport. I plan to go on a three day camping safari in the Masai Mara game park in the next few days, and will probably also spend a couple of days on the coast in Mombasa - its dirt cheap to fly there and stay in a 5 star hotel. On 26 January I'm going to a missionary project supported by my home parish, in Kositei in the Pokot region. This is in the middle of nowhere - I'm being met in Nakuru, about 100km north-west of Nairobi, then we have to drive on non-existent roads to reach the mission. This country is generally a lot more sane than Egypt. Although the roads are terribly pot-holed, and the Matatu mini-buses are always overcrowded, most drivers actually use headlights at night - sometimes people even stop to let you turn right! Of course, being part of the Empire, they drive on the correct side of the road in this country (thats left, for all you Stateside and elsewhere!). What you don't see in Nairobi is donkey carts amidst the traffic like you see all over Egypt, including central Cairo. The flight from Cairo was interesting. It left Cairo at 01:20am, and arrived in Khartoum in Sudan at 04:00am. No sophisticated airport equipment here - all planes serviced on the tarmac rather than at 'gates', and the baggage trolleys were towed by a Massey Ferguson farm tractor! Its slightly more sophisticated in Nairobi - the Massey Ferguson is painted in airport livery. The views of the Rift Valley in northern Kenya were fantastic from 30,000 feet. Next news soon provided I don't get eaten by a lion or trampled by an angry hippo! Nigel
Greetings from Nairobi! Temperatures in the high 70s or 80s, nice and sunny! We get Sky, CNN and South African channels on the TV here, so I'm able to keep up with the news and sport. I plan to go on a three day camping safari in the Masai Mara game park in the next few days, and will probably also spend a couple of days on the coast in Mombasa - its dirt cheap to fly there and stay in a 5 star hotel. On 26 January I'm going to a missionary project supported by my home parish, in Kositei in the Pokot region. This is in the middle of nowhere - I'm being met in Nakuru, about 100km north-west of Nairobi, then we have to drive on non-existent roads to reach the mission. This country is generally a lot more sane than Egypt. Although the roads are terribly pot-holed, and the Matatu mini-buses are always overcrowded, most drivers actually use headlights at night - sometimes people even stop to let you turn right! Of course, being part of the Empire, they drive on the correct side of the road in this country (thats left, for all you Stateside and elsewhere!). What you don't see in Nairobi is donkey carts amidst the traffic like you see all over Egypt, including central Cairo. The flight from Cairo was interesting. It left Cairo at 01:20am, and arrived in Khartoum in Sudan at 04:00am. No sophisticated airport equipment here - all planes serviced on the tarmac rather than at 'gates', and the baggage trolleys were towed by a Massey Ferguson farm tractor! Its slightly more sophisticated in Nairobi - the Massey Ferguson is painted in airport livery. The views of the Rift Valley in northern Kenya were fantastic from 30,000 feet. Next news soon provided I don't get eaten by a lion or trampled by an angry hippo! Nigel