Spent a lot of time doing sweet bogger all today. I went out to buy some groceries and exchange some TSh for Kenyan Shillings. The prices is pretty decent, I divide everything by 10 to get the Rand value, and convert back to pounds from there. Long way round.
The whole place reminds me a lot of home, as in Cape Town. Lots of quite advanced shopping centres and arrogant locals and taxis. Seriously, I could pick up the latest Sony Bravia 52 inch LCD if I so wish. Run across a cellphone store and buy a 3G dongle. Got home and spent the next 3 hours trying to unlock it, so it’ll work on any network. I’ve got it figured out now, but the catch 22 is that I need to be online to do it! And Vista doesn’t like both internet dongles being plugged in at the same time. Later, later. I’m good for Kenya and we’ll be here and around for about 2 – 3 weeks.
The rest of the time everybody just lazed about. Fanie took his car in to fix up the one CV boot. I updated some pics, Annelie chatted with Pat and the girls (no place for a warm blooded male). Other random repairs and useless reconfigs on the vehicles were completed.
Went out to the Panari Sky Centre, a brand new hotel and conference centre in Karen. There’s a very nice buffet restaurant called Pampa there, Brazilian food. It’s the same concept as Roizio Rico in the Angel high street. Basically it’s not a ala Carte menu. You arrive, sit down and you can start with a starter or salad from the salad bar. You have a paper disc in front of you, red for “Nao Obrigado” (no thanks) or “Bring it on” green. Every 2 minutes or so a gentlemen with a large skewer of meat and a very, VERY sharp knife comes over to stand next to you. He proceeds to cut a slither of meat which you grab with a little tong. Meat ranges from beef, beef, more beef (top side, ribs, steak, lamb, pork etc etc), fish (dolphin mostly, even though it’s a mammal technically), crocodile and mountain gorilla. The gorilla is surprisingly delicious, not as tough as I would have thought, while the dolphin tastes very close to a mix of tuna and chicken. I’m told the gorilla is so tender because they only serve baby gorilla, although silverback is quite nice in its own right.
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Ok, I’m totally kidding about the dolphin and gorilla. Gorilla is actually not so good.
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Ok, I’m totally kidding. No endangered species were are on the menu. In fact, a law passed about 3 years ago bans all hunted wild life to be served in restaurants, unless they’re raised on game farms specifically bred for it.
Seriously. NO GORILLA OR DOLPHIN. We good? Ok, let’s continue.
We kept it going as long as we could. They served this beef loin dish that tasted EXACTLY like the ox tail Grandma used to make! Damn it was good man. Had quite a few deep fried bananas too, my favourite at Rodizio in London. All done and out, Annelie was the very last one to flip her green disc to red. They clear our plates and bring us desert: Fried pineapples covered in cinnamon. DELICIOUS! Followed by cappuccino. Oh my goodness, what great espresso! I buy 500g of the stuff. I now own 1.5 KG’s of coffee beans.... so far. Kenya has quite a few good coffee spots, and Trevor mentions that even in the supermarket I should look out for a few names. Mia was the belle of the ball all night, migrating from lap to lap, spending most of her time on my lap, sharing my food and exploring my camera (which she really enjoyed seeing her own picture), my leather bracer, my beard, Annelie’s fluffy jacket etc etc. “Meeaow”. “Tappy”. Trevor and Neill thanks us for keeping her busy. They haven’t had a quiet dinner in the last 2 years! They say it’s quite unusual that she stays occupied for so long.
No, we are not broody.
Traffic is way better back home and we’re all home safe and sound by 23:00. Very good evening. Tomorrow we leave on the next leg of our journey into the rest of Kenya.
Highlights: enough meat to kill a donkey
[G & A], out
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