At present we are travelling the long bumpy road (smooth by African standards) to the Tanzanian border after an early start in bumper-to-bumper Nairobi this morning. We are so thankful that all travel plans have gone really smoothly and everyone has coped remarkably well considering we all missed a night's sleep in transit. The kids are just drinking in the sights, sounds and smells of Africa as we move from the city high up into the Rift Valley and down again to vast expanses of flat land. They're in their element as we've just stopped to buy plastic bags of greasy chips and coke as the only alternative for lunch. It's a hard life...
After 9 hours in the bus we reached the Kenyan/Tanzanian border where it took quite a while to negotiate visas etc. Thankfully Graham McClure from Go MAD met us there and helped us through the difficult negotiations of avoiding bribes and trying to stay within the law which seems to change at a moments notice. Then another 1.5 hr journey and eventually arrived at Eagle Lodge in Musoma on the shores of Lake Victoria. Very welcome omelettes were wolfed down in minutes. There are so many volunteers staying there this summer that we are being put up down the road in the equivalent of the African Fawlty Towers. Hilarious to say the least but we are all adapting well. It was hard to sleep on the first night and we were woken by the call to prayer at 5am - but everyone had survived their first night in Africa.
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