Sunday 21st March: Into Africa

Karen: The first glimpse of Africa proves to be something of an anticlimax, in cold, dark, rainy Nairobi at 6.00 am – remarkably similar to cold, dark, rainy Heathrow at 7.00 pm the day before. Luckily, by the time we made our way to Dar es Salaam and touched down, the rain had stopped, the sun had come up, and everything was looking more promising.

Rob: We had planned to look around Dar es Salaam in the afternoon, but sleep depravation and the soupy heat kept us confined to our hotel until our meeting with Laela from Read International in the evening. Read International’s model for providing books in Tanzania is very different form our own, but it was good to catch up with a fellow NGO and swap experiences.