By my reckoning in the 8 days I have been in Malawi, I have now had Chicken and Chips for lunch 6 times, with a Beef stew and a packet of biscuits making up the other two. The time has come for a bit of experimentation with my diet!
The locals eat a maize concoction called Nsima which has the consistency of cotton woll and the colour of milk - I think I will continue to swerve that, however, in the relatively swanky restaurants that are our lunchtime haunts the menu does stretch to rice or beans with your Chicken/Beef/Fish so plenty of opportunity to mix it up.
Dinner time is a more varied affair, with Maggie and Able at the guesthouse whipping up a storm each night - albeit a storm with rice as the side.
That said, I have just had a samosa brought to my desk - so there is hope!
Thursday 23 September 2010
Tuesday 21 September 2010
Hmmm, blogging..
Right, this is most definitely a first; having not kept so much as a diary before, here goes nothing with a blog from Malawi!
I've been here a week now and the welcome i've had from the local and UK staff over here has been fanastic, making settling in to both the office and my guesthouse (see below for my view from my bedroom) pretty easy.
Internet access seems (so far) pretty consistent in the office so emails etc should be no problem. But for now the light is fading (its dark at 6 here) so I'm going to make the 30 walk back to my guesthouse. A nice change from the Victoria and Bakerloo lines!
I've been here a week now and the welcome i've had from the local and UK staff over here has been fanastic, making settling in to both the office and my guesthouse (see below for my view from my bedroom) pretty easy.
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