It has been such a long time since I wrote a blog update (just checked it was last April so 6 months ago) reflecting on how life here is becoming well my life rather than an experience or maybe an interlude to the rest of my life. Then, I realized there is a lot happening and changes afoot, which would be good to record, possibly the last of my blog posts or a recognition that they will be very few and far between - who knows… My contract with Fairtrade Afri...

Well it is now well over the year off - 14 months in fact and I feel I need to make a closing blog entry. I must admit I wasn't quite as dedicated to making entries than at the beginning but I am glad there is a record of the year. I guess being based in one place and although you can never call it routine in this unpredicatble country, there was less time on my own to write down what was happening and some routines were coming in - bound to happen with going to...

Vicky arrived on a Monday morning, which just happened to be a public holiday for Eid, so what would have been a very early start to get through the traffic to be there when she arrived, actually was a very quick 20 minute drive and then a bit of wait because we were so early. I had been out the night before, and somehow drank one or two whiskeys (why??) and hadn't had a huge amount of sleep - but figured Vicky wouldn't have either having taken the night flight. ...

It has been so long I couldn't even remember my password to this site. So does that mean I am back into the routine of life that no longer is exciting enough to blog about? Well there is definitely is some routine as ever when you are working and begin to get settled in but I am not sure that living in Kenya would ever be the rooutine that I had back in the UK. So what I have been up to? Well I had a ten day trip back to Europe for a Fairtrade board meeting in ...

After a full on four days shadowing a Fairtrade audit at a flower farm near Nairobi, I flew to the coast. Originally I was planning to go with Catharine, but she was picking her keys up to her new apartment over the weekend so couldn't make it. So I decided to come anyway as the Friday was a public holiday (nothing to do with the jubilee celebrations back home). I had already planned to come to Watamu as it's quiet and has a marine park so good to check out dive ...