As some of you may know, I was living and working in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania for the whole of 2016. I really enjoyed it and would have stayed longer had my wife not become pregnant.
Who doesn’t love a 4-day weekend?
We have one coming up this week in Tanzania (my office just confirmed it is a 4-day weekend yesterday) and I’m using it to go on one last adventure in East Africa.
I like to think that I’m pretty adaptable to most situations. However I am currently facing a first world problem.
My Macbook Air is just over 3 years old and yesterday the charger stopped working. On closer inspection I…
Since around August I’ve been trying to walk home from work at least 3 days a week. Some weeks I managed 4 days.
Up until recently I’ve been very consistent in my walking. However the last 3 weeks have been pretty hectic at work and I’ve been…
Over the past few months I’ve been working on a project to help an organisation implement their strategic plan.
It’s been hard work.
Yesterday (Saturday) I met some ex-colleagues for lunch here in Dar es Salaam.
We’ve been trying to get everybody together for quite a while now but there were always people who were unavailable. My colleagues were saying that there weekends are…
Recently I’ve been walking home from work 3–4 times a week. It’s about 4.7km.
Depending on who I’m walking with it usually takes between 47 mins to 1 hour and 5 mins.
I’ll be honest. I’m not sure if I have. There was one occasion but I’m not sure if it was a near death experience
At the time I didn’t feel like it was.
I’ve been living in Dar es Salaam for nearly 7 months now and I took some Swahili classes when I first arrived.
Sadly the last few weeks of classes were really tough because of work commitments and I lost interest in learning…
Today I travelled by road from Dodoma to Dar es Salaam. It took us just under 8 hours because we were forced to stop three times to let VIP convoys pass by.
During that time I spent about 30mins napping and the rest staring out of the car…