“So you are also going to Mombasa”, the three girls asked me, “which part – North Coast or South Coast?”.
The three girls are working in Ukunda (= Diani Beach, South Coast), and took the same bus at 10pm back from Shagz, equipped with a heavy bag full of potatoes from Mama. Vegetabools are kinda expensive [...]

So this is my first bloging attempt using OperaMini on my Nokia6230i (yesss, Daudi:-) while sitting in the lobby of a 1930s Hotel in downtown Mombasa which somehow reminds me of Jack Nicholson’s “the Shining”. Interesting place indeed.
Upon arrival at 6am I just had to ignore all “yes, taxi, my friend?” calls and go [...]

(sam brown, explodingdog)
Everyone, pls have a marvelous start into 2007 and: see you next year! :-)

Nairobi is a weired place:

A BARBIE doll within a cake!

The exclusive public toilets @ Stanley Hotel.

A flooded and congested subway @ Globe Cinema Roundabout…

An awesome poster on haircuts (top) for 60 bob and some “complete sex guides with 750 explicit singles” for 100 bob @ River Road. Hey, that’s the Play Boy next to Farmer’s [...]

I quit church. Years ago.
The start of the ending came when the Government of the Federal Republic of Germany started to deduct 8% from my first salary. That’s the system there – the moment you officially state your confession, they take that amount from your income (before taxes!) and give it to the church. One [...]

(yes, somewhere in Nairobi :-)

Cross posted on Afrigadget.
I was travelling in an upcountry minibus today when the guy seated just next to me pulled out his new mobile phone he recently purchased in Embu, Kenya.
Safaricom, the biggest mobile phone network provider in Kenya with about 5 million customers, introduced some handsets in the past, which enable resellers to deliver [...]

This scenery…

…shall just remind me of peaceful Embu downtown.
If you watch closely enough, you can see a “promotion” going on at the left side of the road where two dudes tried to sell raffle tickets and promised some things like TV sets and other goods rural folks might be attracted to.
And then I arrived in [...]