My room was upstairs, right behind the palm tree in the centre of the picture. The room had louvres and mesh windows at both ends, plus a balcony, so it was possible to get any breeze going. The temperature was often in the high 30's C ... the hottest day being 39.2 C.
Nice big room, with its own shower room. I spent an hour or so every day on the balcony, just watching the world go by ! One day I watched a huge convoy of cars screaming along, with Prime Minister Raila Odinga, and President Museveni of Uganda, going to open a new University of the Great Lakes ... a joint venture of African countries around the lake. I never did find out why in the middle of the convoy, which was closely guarded by army and police, there was a pick-up truck containing a very nice pedigree cow ! Maybe it was a gift from the PM to the President, or vice versa ?
The open door onto my balcony; the tree right outside had a very well camouflaged lizard living in it.
The 'lizard tree' and the view of rather nice housing opposite. Lake Victoria was a quarter of a mile beyond those houses ... and so were the lions I kept hearing at night !
My night-time view from under the net ! It was reassuring to hear mozzies zizzing outside the net while I was inside it, but it made bedtime a bit of a palaver ... everything I might need in the night ... book, glasses, torch, bottle of water, iPod ... had to go under the net with me !
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