What little boy doesn’t like to explore and Mombasa’s old town was the perfect place. I walked past street vendors selling sugar cane, roasted peanuts and betel nuts wrapped in […]

Before there are any fisherman’s tales, you need a boat. This came in the form of ‘Pandu’, the 21-foot-long pride and joy of my father’s. His affections have now been […]

We have had many stranger crafts visit us from other worlds and bring us alien cultures. One such visitation was from the USS Enterprise, not the one from Star Trek, […]

The family used to make day trips north to Malindi or Kilifi, which are 60 miles and 30 miles respectively from Mombasa. Mnarani was our favourite; it was located on […]

On many occasions I would eat with the servants and become acquainted with more exotic dishes. Locusts are a great source of protein but are better dipped in chocolate sauce. […]

Another day on the beach, parents socialising with their friends while the children were left to their own devices. This time I didn’t encounter a shark, I just played by […]

Our pets Petro, an Alsatian dog, and Pisa, a Persian cat, were our constant companions, except on ‘Dip Day’. Ticks and fleas were a bane on all households with pets […]

My father was again transferred, this time to Uganda, some 900 miles inland. I could look forward to visiting a new country and again a new school, in my case, […]

The city of Kampala is built on several hills, each giving their name to a district. We first stayed on the outskirts of the city near Port Bell, before moving […]

I went to the nearby school, an ordinary school, but the pupils were not that ordinary. Uganda is made up of several kingdoms and Kampala is in the middle of […]