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Ugh. Again, super slacking in the blog department. And that awesome audio piece I promised you from my trip back to Dire Dawa is still in the works. I'm trying to get my butt in gear.

Earlier in May I spent 8 days in Kenya at a work thing in Naivasha, which is in the rift valley floor. It was mostly work, no play but on the Friday we did get to go for a boat safari on the lake. Below are a few snapshots.

Ever wondered what the drive into Nairobi city centre looks like? Well lucky for you, I filmed the last 10 minutes or so on my phone and compressed it into this little video of our drive into Nairobi city center on Saturday at noon. Apologies for the cheesy music, but I did warp it a little bit to increase the funness. This is Africa. I should say there was suspiciously little traffic chaos on this particular day. 

Jane Goodall - If you had the chance to do anything differently

I'm just back from a short hop to Nairobi this week. We had an event for work on Friday which I was asked to attend so I combined it with a few days based in our Nairobi office.

Didn't have much chance to enjoy the city, but I did have dinner with some friends I met here in Dar es Salaam who have since been moved to Nairobi. Amazing to share time with friends even after they've left. It's the one major occupational hazard (or personal?) that comes with choosing to work internationally, your friends are constantly on the move, just like yourself. Someone is either coming or going, and it's never certain when or whether you'll see them again.

My second night I had the chance to get together with a former roommate from Copenhagen.d.

Add that to the friends I met in the airport both on the way out of Dar es Salaam on Wednesday, and at the airport in Nairobi yesterday, and I've had a nice half week full of meetings with friends who've come and gone (or friends who've stayed in the same place, and I've come and gone.

Anyway, as a hazard of this kind of lifestyle, I was thinking, if I could do things differently than I am now, would I? I don't think so!

Here's a clip from the lecture by Jane Goodall on the topic.