We rode for 4 hours on Saturday and 3 hours on Sunday... in the most amazing scenery EVER. Tea plantations and fields of coffee trees are our new favourite surroundings. The tea in particular, they are SO neat and fresh smelling and neon green and never ending. Benedikt said the fields looked like giant beds. We rode in groups of 5 both days – there are cool (and stylish) cyclists here, just like us! Yippee! And the locals are SO friendly and hospitable. We ride through all sorts of villages and farms. The kids loved to run next to us and were keeping up with me on the hills :-) The trails start just 3kms away from home...we have LOTS of enjoyable riding ahead of us!
Besides from bike cleaning and some bike maintenance (in our lovely big garden) over the weekend we set out to find all the things that I couldn’t find on foot... ie to broaden our shopping horizons beyond my little Nakumatt forays.
We had to go all the way across town to a suburb called Karen for rim tape for Lord Benedikt’s 29er – we were NOT happy campers sitting in the car for 4 hours – it took us a while to find the ONLY bike shop in Nairobi. :-(
Otherwise we found a little supermarket that stocks lots of foreign branded goodies. It does feel wrong not supporting the local market... but you never know what you're going to get if you buy local stuff. We will buy less German/South African/Italian/Chilean brands over time I PROMISE!
We ate at a superb Italian restaurant on Friday evening and had our neighbour over for dinner on Saturday evening. Sunday evening we had supper at 6pm and then basically killed time until we felt we could go to bed! I REALLY missed not having at TV last night. I was really in the mood to veg in front of it.
Big breakfast after our ride: (Check our cool table that our landlords lent us)
Our guest bedroom is now officially ready for our first guests -my brother and his girlfriend are here next week –yay. We got some swamp green curtains made (never realised how much curtains help one sleep at night) and I bought some REALLY awesome zebra tables at the market last week. (WHAT A TOURIST!!) The curtains turned out well, we’re happy with them. Phew, what a relief. I am housewife extraordinaire :-)
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Hey Sarah!!! Nice to hear from you!! Hum..I really liked the guest bedroom...lol! Lets make a deal; you guys come to Brasil for some tropical riding...and then i come to visit you, huh? What do you say?! xoxoxoxoxox Luli
I think thats an awesome idea Luli!
When are you coming?!! There is SUCH awesome riding out here. You can even use my spare bike :-)
Nice guestroom... What's the price for a ticket brussels-nairobi?? ;-) Don't eat so much Bennie, you will explode. Or is ti a bad taken picure ...
Next year?! When is the best time? And how about you guys...when are YOU coming? xoxoxo
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