An even quieter day. I had a massage at the lodge/campsite at their occasional spa. Not completely surprised to be offered this as I had my hair cut here when we visited before. An overland bus has come in on the other campsite but we’ve hardly noticed them.
We used the minced beef we had bought in Iringa, most of the veg we got from the kitchen here and some of Maria’s lentils to make a big stew that we flavoured with our peanut and sesame paste that we bought in Fort Portal. We thought we’d done well but when we came to eat it in the evening we weren’t too impressed. The sesame doesn’t really give a definite enough flavour to be used in this way; or I am ding it wrong somehow.
In the early evening we walked on the farm again, enjoying the mellow light and long shadows and the birds. There are lots of stonechats and a good selection of flycatchers; and there are pin-tailed whydah on the campsite!!
We’ve been here so long that the Masai on the gate have started speaking Swahili to us instead of just making monosyllabic replies. I think it’s taken them a while to realise that we are speaking Swahili to them, just not very good Swahili.
We used the minced beef we had bought in Iringa, most of the veg we got from the kitchen here and some of Maria’s lentils to make a big stew that we flavoured with our peanut and sesame paste that we bought in Fort Portal. We thought we’d done well but when we came to eat it in the evening we weren’t too impressed. The sesame doesn’t really give a definite enough flavour to be used in this way; or I am ding it wrong somehow.
In the early evening we walked on the farm again, enjoying the mellow light and long shadows and the birds. There are lots of stonechats and a good selection of flycatchers; and there are pin-tailed whydah on the campsite!!
We’ve been here so long that the Masai on the gate have started speaking Swahili to us instead of just making monosyllabic replies. I think it’s taken them a while to realise that we are speaking Swahili to them, just not very good Swahili.