I am taking every opportunity to use electricity at the moment...as I don't think I will be having that much access to it over the next couple of weeks. Will attempt to post as and when I can, probably once a week when I can visit Kericho at the weekends whilst doing shopping.

Today we are going to visit a coffee plantation, if that's what they're called lol. And getting ready for an early start tomorrow. To drive the distance of Nairobi-Kericho back in the UK on luxuriously smooth roads would only take 2 hours. However, we are hoping to leave at 7 am (4am UK time which my body is deciding it's going to run by, since when was I a morning person) and we'll be lucky if we get there at lunchtime. We're going to stop at Lake Naivasha at a country club hotel, which actually was set up when the first commercial planes were flying from cape town to london. They would fly from Cape Town to Naivasha in one day, stop overnight, then Naivasha to Alexandria in Egypt in another day, then Alexandria to Geneva and then overnight again to London. They were flying boats so they landed on the water - interesting, as Naivasha is full of Hippos...

So we'll stop at the hotel briefly, and hopefully get a view of the millions of roses that grow at Lake Naivasha. The roads from Nairobi to Naivasha are comparably better than the roads then leading to Kericho, and this isbecause the flower growers funded the roads themselves. Seem a little bizarre? Well not when four jumbo jets (each carrying 65 tons of roses) fly out from Naivasha heading for our local Tesco's and Marks and Sparks...

We'll then be heading on to Nakuru which should take about 1hr45, and we'll be detouring to stop at the equator. Usual touristy stuff, but it's all gotta be done!

Not even REMOTELY missing home yet, this could be because i'm living it up in a luxury Kenyan pad with sky tv and a HUGE room complete with ensuite. Plus our very own pet mongoose dans le jardin. I am sure this stint of luxury will soon be replaced with spiders and mosquitos but hey..it's all part and parcel! this time in 9 weeks i'll be on a mountain in Tanzania somewhere...which is a pretty cool thought...


Hannah xx