Tag: Kenya
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10 African women who are breaking the barriers of travel
It’s a brave thing to pack your bags and set off for a totally new place— alone. We crave the familiar. We feel cosy in the arms of certainty. We […]
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When Google Maps says you have arrived, but you know you haven’t
I had never been to Lake Naivasha before and was accompanying some children from Jitegemee Children’s Centre in Machakos, Kenya on a field trip. The students, about 50 of them, […]
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23 tips for your first cross-border African road trip
Here’s a list of tips from experiences we’ve had out on the highways of Southern and Eastern Africa. This is based on things we found out the hard way or […]
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20 East African coffee shops you need to check out
Our 2018 East Africa Road Trip definitely centered around coffee!! We felt this was appropriate, East Africa being famed for its coffee production, and us being avid coffee consumers
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New year’s adventure in Mombasa
Happy 2018! There’s nothing that helps you feel more like you “belong” in a place than hosting guests! We had such a fun couple of weeks over the holidays with […]
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Zain Verjee, Kenya’s builder of storytellers
Zain Verjee used to interview world presidents and other movers and shakers. She gave that up to help create a generation of informed and highly trained African journalists and multi-media […]
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A Kenyan welcome from Wyan, Wyan & Wyan
We arrived in Machakos, Kenya in August 2016 with too many heavy suitcases, some excitement tempered by bucket loads of anxiety. Nips was not yet one year old, and we […]
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When a woman you’ve only just met won’t let you change your own baby’s diaper
We’ve just arrived at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport and cleared immigration, Verity, Nips and I. Nips is one day younger than two.
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Banana Farmhouse, Nairobi, Kenya #PlacesYouNeedToVisit
When I’m feeling super stressed out from work or life or whatever, I put my mind back to our one night at Banana Farmhouse in Banana Hill, outside Nairobi. The […]
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Bush, rain & borders – A different sort of night out in East Africa
It was one of those trips during which I frequently found myself thinking, “Thank goodness my mother doesn’t know I’m doing this.”