Monday, 7 March 2011

First weekend in Nairobi

Well the weekend started off somewhat shakily after thursday's outing. We were all feeling very delicate so friday was pretty quiet. Saturday was straight back on it though with a trip to an elephant orphanage which was pretty cool but doesn't really compare to seeing them in the wild and then a giraffe sactuary where people kiss the giraffes. I absteined from this with the comment that i generally don't kiss animals and am even pretty picky about the humans i kiss these days (no laughing!!).

We then met up with some other guys at a restaurant called The Rusty Nail for lunch - v nice setting with a little organic market down the side with some fruit that i wanted to take pictures of so i could send them to Tesco as a lesson to them.

Lunch at The Rusty Nail in Karen:

I cooked dinner for a few of us in the evening before we headed out on a very good but also quite bizarre evening. Better not go into too much details but Eastern European and Kenyan mafia looking after us was not quite wat i'd expected!! We went to a really cool bar called Casablanca and some guys we'd met previously came and joined us there. Everyone dancing round the dancefloor at one point doing the conga was quite a sight.

Sunday we went to masai markets where i was introduced to real haggling. Rob - nothing like we came accross in SA. This is crazy and in hindsight not a good idea with a hangover in the blaring midday sun. I bought some funky hippo plates and had a fun time haggling with this guy david who basically wrote down 4 lines and told me we were gonna start at the chinese price and work our way to the local price. 'i give you good price good price'.
Julia at the Masai Market at YaYa towers:



Lunch with Patrick, Jamie, Aras and Julia at Brew Bistro:


After that we met up with some other guys for lunch then headed to 'Blankets and wine' which apart from sounding awesome anyway is a mini music festival held monthly. A bit like a mini field day but with more local music. v cool and basically the best way to spend a sunday. The evening was rounded off with a few of us cooking at a friends and then me getting my ass kicked at poker but hey ho. Next time....
Blankets and wine:



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