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<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\nWe had breakfast with Valentine before she started work – decent coffee<\/p>\n\n\n\n And a “Swahili breakfast” with mbaazi<\/p>\n\n\n\n I then drove to Mivumoni, the first place in Kenya I thought of as home. I called on Maggy’s parents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Visited Lucy at her shop (mobile signal is getting a big upgrade!)<\/p>\n\n\n\n And dined with Lucy’s family – they always lay on a spread<\/p>\n\n\n\n As ever, my day started with a run, then back to the shamba<\/p>\n\n\n\n I’d left the car near the church and some local kids joined me when I went there to top up my drinking water.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I wasn’t allowed to leave without lunch!<\/p>\n\n\n\n Leave? Who said leave? The weather had other ideas – the heavens opened and it poured, while we took shelter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Eventually the rain eased a little and we accepted the inevitable (getting soaked) and we hiked up to the car, and I hit the road. In fact, a mile down the road the weather was fine and I had an easy drive back to Diani, where Valentine’s house cats greeted me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Joyce took me to the very north end of Diani Beach, where the Kongo River flows into the sea. Sometimes. At the moment there’s a sand bar, but when there has been heavy rain and stormy seas the river breaks through. It’s a famous place for sunsets, though not so spectacular today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Nice spot for a paddle<\/p>\n\n\n\n Or even a swim…<\/p>\n\n\n\n Some of the biggest baobabs are here<\/p>\n\n\n\n Back at Valentine’s, the moon and a planet over the neighbour’s house.<\/p>\n\n\n\n After a beer, picking up Valentine, supper … it should have been an early night (very early start tomorrow) but hey…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Tuesday 3\/12\/2024 Diani and Mivumoni I managed to squeeze in an early run from Diani into Ukunda. More animal sculptures here! We had breakfast with Valentine before she started work – decent coffee And a “Swahili breakfast” with mbaazi I then drove to Mivumoni, the first place in Kenya I thought of as home. I… Continue Reading South Coast<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","radius"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p43dbc-GW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.asimons.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.asimons.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.asimons.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.asimons.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.asimons.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2662"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.asimons.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2689,"href":"https:\/\/blog.asimons.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2662\/revisions\/2689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.asimons.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.asimons.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.asimons.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\nWednesday 4\/12\/2024 – Mivumoni and Diani<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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