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| Mombasa, Kenya |
Now Mombasa. Many tourists do not like the town, I do. I do
a lot. It is a very charming, loud and
hectic here. Nice and warm with temperatures of approx. 30 or 35 degrees and a
full air humidity - seldom less than 90%. For my eyes, there cannot be anything
better....
Moreover,
this great Old Town with many white, old houses and crooked narrow lanes.
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| Yusuf and his parrot, Mombasa, Kenya |
Besides,
this is the hometown of my good old friend Yusuf and his family. Yusuf, I got
to know four years ago and since then we meet again and again, at last in Addis
Ababa when his holiness was there and I was allowed to take photos all day.
Now a new meeting in Mombasa. Also, there is Nafisa now
living in Mombasa, Yusuf's sister. She
lives here with her son and her granddaughter Khadija. Nafisa's husband has
passed away last year and then the rest of the family moved from Tanzania to
Mombasa.
This was a nice and at the same time sad reunion with
Nafisa. We are like sisters - if one is suffering, the other suffers as well.
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| Nafisa and Khadija, Mombasa, Kenya |
The
granddaughter Khadija is even more beautiful now and at the same time she can
behave like a little devil.
Mombasa has
become a kind of a meeting place. Also Phylis lives here since one year. On my
last trip, I spent a few days with Phylis and Willy. At that time they lived
not far from Nairobi in a small town called Gilgil. Well, she is also in
Mombasa now.... Phylis runs a car hire company with a vehicle park of five
vehicles. The business goes well. Moreover, deals with properties. We spent a
relaxed afternoon together talking about the old times and exchanging the news
of the last four years.
By the way -
meeting place Mombasa: Benson lives here as well. He has a shop in Bamburi,
where he sells CDs and DVDs. The family inhabits a small flat in the same
house. I spent 2 very nice afternoons with Benson and his family there. |
| With Khadija, Nafisas house, Mombasa, Kenya |
