We spent this weekend exploring Arusha. We started at the colourful local markets packed full of second hand clothes and fruit and veg. We stood out a mile being the only white faces in the crowds. We then went to a really interesting sheltered workshop called Shanga. The people working there are deaf or blind and are trained in weaving cloth, glass blowing and jewellery making using recycled glass bottles and cans. Their stuff is beautiful. The money from the sa...

It was animal central on our safari weekend out to Tarangire National Park. We tried driving ourselves & had close encounters with zebra, giraffe, elephants, buffalo, wildebeast & lions! It was wonderful apart from getting attacked by stinging tsetse flies...ouch! Elephants everywhere, saw them run & trumpet, with babies, saw lions mating & after killing a wildebeast. The kids amazed us, happily spending 8 or more hours in the car per day. Had t...

Hard to know where to begin except to say we had one of the most incredible insights into Maasai culture & feel so privledged. The day started early with us up at 5 & out the door by 630 am....thats a first with kids! We were off to "Maasai land" where Adam has been helping a missionary (Nick) with English lessons for some maasai. Normally outsiders are not allowed to this area but we had been invited so felt incredibly lucky. Usually the only contact w...

He did it!! 42 km & came 3rd of the muzungus (whites) in 4 hours, 42 secs! It was out of 3rd out of 10 but still fantastic for first time & he got a trophy for getting a place. The Africans leave us all for dead and look like graceful gazelles barely working up a sweat. Beautiful to watch. Some famous runners in the mix. We seem to have entered a strange world of extreme sports people who think nothing of climbing Mt Kilimanjaro one day, doing a tough mo...

After an easy & scenic 2 hour drive on surprisingly good roads we arrived in Moshi. We were in our "new" car... not actually new after all but its still nice. A small Suzuki 4WD. We'd given up that it was going to work out so it was a real surprise to get a call Fri to pick it up. Without Adam realising, the marathon is a group event & we have become part of a tour group. A very eccentric lady- perhaps late 70's is organising it. She's the founder & ...