Settling in, aka sleeping

The last few days have been very relaxed, with early breakfasts, followed by a little sleep, and then elevenses, followed by lunch and a walk, before a sleep, dinner, and another sleep. Our hosts say that this is normal when one comes to Nairobi.

On our walks we have seen many incongruously shiny shopping centres in the midst of some fairly poor houses. We are also the only white people who we have seen walking. The vast majority of the whites (your aid money probably, there are loads of NGOs here) drive brand new SUVs (to be fair they probably need them for safety as the Kenyans drive like maniacs).

Today has been our most eventful day. There was a monkey looking through the window when we woke up. Then our host decided to reverse into the tree in the middle of the drive (he has only been here for 20 years). Hard.
The parliamentary expenses malarkey has made it to Kenya. The Kenyans think it is a huge joke. In a country where 6% of people live on less than $1 a day, HIV rates in the slums are running at 20% (life expectancy 45 in those areas), people dying because they can not get water, the politicians are embezzling millions upon countless millions. A moat here and there is nothing.
The mystery of why Joanna is so much more tasty to mosquitoes than me may also have been solved. Apparently they like the A blood type.
Anyway, tonight a sauna, and tomorrow Nairobi proper...