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I couldn’t get over how good the road was down through the centre of Tanzania. On our original entry, from Mbeya to Dar Es Salam it was appalling. Maybe I’d have to take back all my curses at Tanzanian roads … Continue reading
Yearly Archives: 2015
We’ve been pretty much stranded at Mwanza Yacht Club. The view may look like an expensive, shabby-chic area of the South of France… …but when you look closely, these guys aren’t paying $2m+ for some trendy old hillside cottage… Had … Continue reading
Leaving Rwanda we drove a scenic, beautifully tarred, 120km road to the Rusumo Falls border with Tanzania. Speed limits here are very low – typically 40kph and 60kph on occasional roads, so it’s still a 3 hour drive. We got … Continue reading
There’s nowhere to camp in Kigali, Rwanda. Actually, there’s probably only a handful of places in the whole country. We ended up with the rooftent pitched on the driveway of a B&B in the city that advertises camping (called TR … Continue reading
It was time to move on from Kasese. Either side of flying home for Charlie’s wedding, we had been in Kasese District for about 5 months and leaving was a bit of a wrench. Having had so much warm hospitality … Continue reading
For the Fuel Briquette training day at the AmahaWe Uganda library we hired Rachel & her colleague Leo from Afode (a local WWF sponsored NGO) who have been using a steel briquette press of Tanzanian design. We brought about 30 … Continue reading
Having taken a deep breath and got my previous rant pretty much fully out of my system, let’s get back to something more positive. There’s been great progress with the AmahaWe Uganda team in Kasese. Funds were raised in the … Continue reading
There’s a huge amount of good, grass-roots work being done by AmahaWe Uganda, other NGOs and small groups of local community leaders around Uganda. Progress is slowly, but visibly being made in trying to raise rural communities out of poverty. … Continue reading
Although we’ve only had it 6 years, our Land Rover is now almost 20 years old. Apart from a few well documented repairs while we’ve been in Africa, it’s in what could (perhaps generously) be called ‘very original condition’. All … Continue reading
The patch we had put across the whole top of the tent bag Before we left the car in Entebbe had done a great job and there was no sign of damp or bugs. Unfortunately, the first time we opened … Continue reading