Tag Archives: Dispatches from the road – I’m not talking about the “Good Vibrations” kind of Beach Boys. Nope. These Beach Boys, found all along the coast of Kenya, are making relaxation on the beaches more and more difficult. Should you interact with them? Buy their products? Or tell them to bugger off? Read on for one tourist’s perspective.  One of the ways that a book comes alive for me is by reading it in the country where it is set. Equally, one of the ways that a country comes alive for me is by reading books about it. Here is my take on six books set in Kenya that I’ve recently read.  After several months of stressful work in Uganda, we’d been dying to hit the beach for months. And here we finally were! I guess it was no surprise, then, that we were got totally stuck along the North Coast of Kenya.  Nairobi has a bad reputation. The 2012 Westgate Mall shooting. The 1998 US embassy bombing. The 2007 post-election riots.  Work is over, Kampala is behind us. Before we make a be-line to the Kenyan coast, we decide to explore a bit of Uganda. Here we make stops to the source of the Nile River and Uganda’s Sipi Falls. One impressed while the other had us packing up the next morning. Read on to find out which is which! |
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