Arki and family, a nice Indian family that are currently living in Dar es Salaam. Arki was very interested in our trip and said we must join him in Dar for some good Indian food and he could introduce us to his friend who is Chairman of a charity organisation that helps feed the poor in Dar. We will definately take him up the offer even for some the good home cooked Indian food.... I thought I saw Sam dribbling when he was talking about it...!
Sean and his lovely wife, were recently married like us.. Sean was American born and went to Germany as a young boy, been there since he was 5 but still has the strongest American accent.. Love it!!! . They were honeymooning in Zanzibar. A very sociable, charismatic guy with a story for every event, we really enjoyed his company. We exchanged details and will hopefully meet again when he comes to London or we go to Germany…
Stephano – Sam and my ‘brother from another mother’ a young man that took a real shine to us and we definitely took to him. He would give us jokes, like his advice for me, to stop locals over charging us; one of them was to walk around, shopping or on buses but not say anything and people should give me local prices as they would think I was Kenyan!! LOL, definitely going to try that as these Africans are trying to get as much money out of me as possible. - I don’t blame them..
These guys never stopped smiling and accommodated our drinking sessions to the highest of standards.All the staff in the resort are the same, many of them having a real warm, comforting presence about them.
In conversation though, you would learn the reality about their lives. They work 6 days a week with only two weeks holiday entitlement a year. They get $50 (£32) a month!! Which made me think if I was born into that situation you would not want me serving your food or drinks, as I would be a very angry man!! African patience and tolerance is something to be admired and we will definitely be looking into hotels that are eco and community friendly in the future.
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| Nice sensible holiday goers... |
Meet our drinking buddies and 3 of them are Irish – so this was some serious bar abuse!!!! – Even resulting in Liam (pink t-shirt) jumping into the pool with all his clothes on, one night after the night club… to prove he could do it and keep his cigarette still lit…LOL, (he failed!! )
Rob and Fiona (next to J and me) live in Tanzania near Lake Victoria, they were both really helpful, and gave us some good ideas of where to go in Africa. While Elaine (floral dress) and Liam live in Dublin, we all met on the first night in Zanzibar and hit it off straight away! What a lovely bunch of people – we love ‘em!
We caught so much jokes with them and Fiona sorted us with some nice accommodation on our arrival to Dar.
Liam was legendary at the resort as he would make an effort to talk to everyone in his loud, sometimes blunt but funny Irish humour. For example one night he tried to speak to some Italian people and started the conversation by just saying ‘Pavarotti, Pavarotti..!’ ‘Si, Si, Prago’ to everything they said or another time he was speaking to a group of German tourists and every now and then would just go ‘eins, vice, swice’..they loved him to the point they ended up joining us, to go clubbing!
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| OK!! Maybe we weren't that sensible that night!! "Bar man - another JD & lemonade and rum & coke please!!" |
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