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Shambani Cottages
Shambani Cottages is one of several resorts in Diani at the coast of Kenya where you can rent your own cottage, but it is an affordable paradise
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To Rolf’s Place
Rolf’s Place is an old colonial building which previously had been a private residence and is nowadays a hotel. It is located some distance outside of Nairobi
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Bomas of Kenya
Bomas of Kenya is an open air museum with traditional huts of the different tribes of Kenya
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The Wind Laughed Through The Trees
“And the wind laughed, and the wind laughed through the trees… Come with me I’m going back, I’m going back to East Africa” (Phil Collins)
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Staying in the House of Peace
Hotel room in Dar es Salaam. Comfortable but due to the fact that Tanzania is a Muslim country there was that kind of prayer singing outside several times a day. Also, on the last day there was an issue with the shower
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In and Beneath the Traffic
On the way from the airport to the hotel. It had been hot in the car as the driver turned the air conditioning off at times. African habits
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Why You Should Listen To Safety Instructions
On 23 November 1996 hiiackers forced the captain of Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961 to fly to Australia. They thought the plane can fly eleven hours and Australia is only ten hours away, so they could reach it. The captain tried to make them understand that the plane had only enough…
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On the Train in Kenya
On the way from Nairobi to Mombasa. The railway track had been built by Chinese investors
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Best Possible Welcome to Africa
My second time in business class after getting a free upgrade, this time by Kenya Airways and with a window seat
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Wealth of Nations and Steam Engine
There were some people who contributed to the Enlightenment about as much as Sir Isaac Newton, and they were born in Scotland. One of them was Adam Smith. He was born in the town Kirkcaldy at the eastern coast. When he was fourteen years old he entered the University of…
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Knowledge Enlightens
Curiosity. A typical human attribute. People were always curious, they wanted to find out basically about everything around them. The problem was, or still is, that there were or are things for which we don’t have an explanation yet or at least cannot visualise. In the past that was leading…
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The Beginnings of Empirical Science
The Enlightenment. One could say it all began with one man: Sir Isaac Newton. He was born in Lincolnshire, England, on Christmas morning of 1642. When he was three his mother married a man from a nearby village. He hated his stepfather. But later he enrolled at Trinity College in…
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