Change of Plan

If anyone actually follows our calendar (at the bottom of this blog page) they will notice that we are in Nairobi, not at Lake Victoria on our way to Rwanda as planned. We are still trying to get to Rwanda, but had to miss out on Olduvai Gorge and the Serengeti due to our repeatedly failing shock absorbers. Very boringly this has happened twice now (previously in Zambia), both times on very bad roads, and we have decided to go to the East African capital of Nairobi, where it is possible to buy anything, to have the suspension looked at. These problems should not occur on a freshly installed system, so we are concerned to get it set up for the much worse roads of Northern Kenya.

Long story short, we are now in Nairobi for a few days and then hope to head off to Maasai Mara and on to Uganda. We will be doing things backwards from the planned route, and will have to retrace our steps later, but this way we are safe - and get to spend some time in a real metropolis again. Yay for cinemas, Apple dealers and broadband internet!