The Twiga cementer factory is the one of the best known landmarks in Dar. When you arrive by boat from Zanzibar it’s the first building you see. It looms over the bay to the north. There is an urban myth that it was the inspiration for Charlie and the Chocolate Factory because author Roald Dahl… Read More »
I had heard that Mwanza was a pretty city but I never know whether to believe people but their idea of ‘pretty’ is often not the same idea as mine. So I decided to take a look for myself. \i am was pleasantly surprised by what I found. I was not expecting to see a… Read More »
I was fed up of not getting paid and needed to escape Dar for cooler climes so I got a flight to next day out of the hot house to the north. I had contacted a recommended guide and he was able to sort me out with a safari with a couple of other Ukrainians.… Read More »
The Rotary Club takes part in this medical camp each year and so I thought I would join in. It sounded like fun although I was a little worried about COVID. After all people are dropping dead all over the place and the hospitals are full of patients with breathing difficulties. Of course the government… Read More »
I had heard of Lazy Lagoon so when there was the chance to go there and spend the night bobbing up and down moored by Foxes Hotel, I jumped at it. We were in the minority in that we decided to cook our own food and stay 100% of the time on the boat. We… Read More »
It’s not if but when you get a rope burn apparently. I am new to sailing so I have been going carefully. I even bought a pair of gloves but lost one and then the the other one (the left hand!) away. How I regretted that decision last Saturday when the rope holding the traveller… Read More »
i had never managed to find anyone I knew well enough to feel comfortable asking whether I could go out fishing with them. But at the end of the Latham fishing competition I had met and got to know a woman with a boat and she was willing to take me. My only experience of… Read More »
Claire asked me to go on her behalf to Don Bosco on Friday afternoon. I wasn’t particularly busy and I had often wondered what that place was all about. I had seen a basketball court and assumed it was a sports ground. I couldn’t be farther from the truth because it is in fact a… Read More »
The rotary club of Oyster Bay together with three rotary clubs in Belgium has initiated a service project to assist in the improvement of two schools near the airport in Dar es Salaam. The schools are called Juhudi and Ukonga and are primary schools which are connected by an alleyway. I went to visit on… Read More »
The Latham fishing competition is the biggest in the fishing section calendar at the Dar Yacht Club. The boats go our for 36 hours in the area to the south called Latham or into the channel between Dar and Zanzibar. Before the boats set sail there was a raffle – kind of an auction –… Read More »