The africa disease: an unrecoverable sickness - Kenya: 3 times in 6 months
Jambo,
my child of 4 years asked me today, that the true mother ns. The duke looks cheetah that I saw in Africa?
I do listen to the song that says Alleluja?
perhaps we have exaggerated, but come back 3 times in Kenya within six months (August-November-February 2007) has changed our lives.
I ns. parents, elderly now, every time we leave and we bring in Andrea are apprehensive for the duration of the holiday, but when the ns. Return hear tell that Andrea was in Africa once again his game, so many races and swimming, of many races and made jokes on the beach ... are taught.
IPerche 'Andrea hour and' a child with a mind and mentality 'very open as a true do-it-yourself traveler!
The ns. return (for the third time) in Watamu and 'decided 2 days before leaving, I I' knew my husband if we could leave the office. San valentino flights we looked on the internet and finding a good combination with 796.00 euros Livingstone February 16-26 in high season, we have taken advantage.
7.40 After the flight we landed at Mombasa, at 6 am, where we realized immediately that the moisture 'was much more' high that in November.
Chaos in order to pay the visa 40 euro entry, luggage arrived on time and no problems with customs, even if the first lord of us had already 'in hand ready to be given 5 euros to the controller even if it had not yet asked for anything !..... We were a little 'perplexing, since' the end is us that we have introduced this practice .... and now we do not more 'on Take off!
Hakuna Matata but the important thing was to go out and embrace ns. THOMAS MBOYA. arteficie of the ns. mal d'africa, a simple boy of 30 years who lives in Watamu and that on three occasions and 'managed to bring us back into his land to his house and his family.
We expect to be recognized by wearing a shirt that had sent for Christmas.
Just realized that we had arrived Thomas began to cry from happiness', we have embraced as' a long time that the taxi driver and us' come to call, then we go? we expect the usual evil 2 and a half hours of bumpy road to Watamu.
travel and 'very thoughtful, Paul spoke to Thomas, Andrea was asleep, I was living my dream, and unlike other times, where the need was to see oiu' location 'as possible, to do more' trips possible, this time seemed d 'returned home, peaceful and carefree in the midst of my people, I had also only need to observe in silence.
as throughout the country recognize the case, the location, the shop where selling sim before arriving in Watamu, the market on Saturday and I felt better and better.
I began to observe the women in the early morning all had something in mind to be carried, wrapped in their bright sarongs and sometimes more with the kids' little tied in a sort of rear pouch.
gede and arrived at Timboni, my nostalgia for Africa began to recede and to be repaid by the vision of the places we tried and loved.
The Sinz and Nameless song in Swahili and it means to dream with open eyes .. and 'what is happening to me, returning from Watamu and its people.
Andrea has 3 brothers in Watamu, adopted distance Sienna Anton, Bella, (5-7-9 years) who are orphaned grandchildren, Thomas, his sister and the 'dead a year ago (only 32 years), leaving his three children and making him promise that if they would deal him without putting them in orphanage.
Suffered in August when we had the good fortune to know this simple and honest boy, we realized that we could trust him blindly, and now we have considered as part of ns. helping the family to study its three nipotini.visto tells us that as always, his family will be 'difficult to manage to have it, because if you marry a girl of the place, would be forced to make their children, that he could not maintain ... Having already '3 grandchildren ....
Thomas took us everywhere around the Kenya, always using the local media, Matatu, tuc tuc, coach,.
in Malindi instead we wanted to go with the Matatu, much folklore especially on Sundays, when entire families dressed in their Sunday go to go to mass ... and as usual once you are the 'we shot with the tuc tuc.
jeep instead, we went to the beach visiting Che Chale, suitable only for those who make surfing kit.
In November we took a bus in Lamu, Diani and Tiwi beach and always visit all'orfanatrofio ..
In August we made the Masai Mara and Lake Nakuru 5 days lodge and tent and Andrea had the baby more European 'small safari around!.
All this organized by Thomas via e-mail
Thomasmby@yahoo.co.uk - cell no. 00254-735 334 392
When we all'orfanatrofio of Timboni (3 times in 6 months) to find these children, Andrew and 'run to the first meeting and speak in Italian asking scuarciagola Who wants to play football ?????
None of them speak Italian, but immediately understand and spell check as a roll of paper pesta that looks like a ball and start running in the garden, which serves as andrea Capetta shouting I won, I won me!
Ns to teach. child who can not 'always win, that is playing with a team and that we must move the ball and' difficult, only 4 years ..
but when we try to make him understand that he and 'lucky and be happy as other children, his friends have no mamma and papa' then reflects and becomes a perfect player
first step immediately to the home of Thomas. where his mother Anna. We waited unbelieving, because 'he had heard about the ns. return only the day before and seemed not true ... and it 'Andrea narrow chest as if it were his son and wept for happiness', two minutes after all were crying, me, the kids of the village, and even Thomas. and 'was very touching and remembered' forever.
Sit with them in their "species" of the veranda, where to make it more 'comfortable had the same colored sarongs as a sign of welcome and tell us of our. mal d'africa and
our life in italy so 'different rhythms from Pole to Pole scanned e' stato bello .... as always.
We did not know yet where we stayed, we trust blindly Thomas. who has carte blanche on everything and never makes a mistake not, in fact this time we have booked a nice cottage with a sea view terrace, where we could see the phenomenon of the low tides of
Watamu beach! that show ... all paid 20 euro a room including breakfast.
Andrea and Paul spent much of the holiday to rest and play with children of
Watamu and 3 grandchildren of Thomas. when they were not in school, and I have the opportunity to dive into the work of Thomas and bernard to see how it worked, since I recommended them to many Italians and tourists who fortunately were in place during our own. stay!
Once again, stay in contact with them, understand their problems of daily survival, how to troubleshoot problems without running into anyone and manage to keep the family and 'was very interesting even if sometimes a little' sad.
E 'stato bello conoscere Paola and Paolo di Bologna, known on the forum and met on the beach of
Watamu beach, with George and his wonderful family, met a blue lagoon and leave them on the 2-day safari to Tsavo and' still more 'interesting.
Thomas and Bernard. were in at all serious and reliable have accompanied us on a wonderful safari
Tsavo East 2 days where we saw everything, minus the leopard ... we stayed at the VoiWildlife safari lodge in the area tend wonderful evening where the lake was buffalo to drink ... and to think that in August at
Masai Mara have done much to come from to see .... li 'were at hand!
I observed in silence save for what I was good living, I have many photos, but the most 'beautiful I have printed in the mind and are helping me to live here in a less stressful.
I purposely made even the blue safari, to see if the park in February Marino was unlike that in August, the water was indeed the most 'clear and the fish seemed to be more' colorful.
I first saw how the boarding of the beach boys on the beach where you and even a 'catapulted into the water with a safari to the catalog by hand Motrio to two tourists who were swimming!
Fortunately we have never had any problem since 'Thomas with us that there is a sort of code of honor where none of them approaches you to ask yourself or sell you something, so we could run without being too easily annoyed.
The ns. and stay 'was ravaged by one of my carelessness, immediately after the safari, I left the restaurant on my digital desktop as it happens everywhere and I have not more' found.
Thomas has demobilized throughout the restaurant, tried to understand who were the last two customers after us, the day after he knocked the house to house in
Watamu, found the girl who accompanied the European and the waiters showed as the last possible person to have seen my camera, and the good he tried to convince her and think, But aihme ', my own digital era carina and very marketable, so it is not' never jumped out, even if an afternoon we found all to the police station local tourist
Watamu, where I have to say that polizziotti have made a lot to help me even through a search of the girl at home that I and Thomas blocked because we 'think we preferred it.
Those who spot a similar crime, is marked for life in
Kenya are very strict about these things.
Even if this girl is only 24 years could get my camera, I wanted to ask you to at least find me the card of photos that I used, relying on good faith and teaching that would give his daughter to 6 years.
In the end me and Bea. We became friends, police unbelieving me disapproval, because 'all the evidence against her were, Thomas also believes he was speaking from the African to the African Union and asked him to return to the good.
Io non ho piu 'the camera and photos, but' I know another reality 'Bea., Her friends, as they live, where they live, because' live'.... so you will remember 'sicuramente me because 'I was calm and talked to older sister, I was promised that make' everything to help me find it and I want to believe ...
The fact to find myself without a camera, I was a little more 'store everything that I lived and I saw and now I am sick propio.
The Saturday before leaving, we gathered with Alessandra and her family, known on the forum, along with Maurice and his wife, whom I so much to Loreta and her friends all the fantastic people known only by e-mail, we met a
Watamu and it 'was nice to greet them. the ns. return home and 'was quiet, every time I watched the time and said:
are now doing the safari together with Thomas and Bernard. now already be 'on lunch at Tsavo and so' on ... every day.
Is there a medicine to cure?
I own no!
This time Sienna healthy, Anton, Bella Thomas and his family is not 'difficult, because' we are all aware of 'Africans have become more and more' united than before.
Sickness africa and 'a sweet and suffer' a Sinz accompany you 'for life, the only remedy:
BACK JUST CAN '!
Asante sana Thomas for having made love to your land.
Cinzia Paul Andrea and the little do-it-yourself traveler!
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