Watamu - food and the village

Watamu is essentially still a fishing village at heart, with some hotels built around (and more in the offing) - we felt very much at ease and safe, and enjoyed the exchanges of jambo, habari? Mzuri (swahili for" hello how are you - I am fine") or ciao with people.

Rwanda still feels cold (not just temperature) in comparison - there are goats grazing freely, women on corners frying fish, or manzani (doughnut /oliebol type things - but with cardamom flavoured sugar), kids playing in the street etc, as well as music playing in the shops and from peoples houses.









Mama Lucy's supermarket - a well stocked oasis of Kenyan and imported produce.

Roasters was where we ended up taking a lot of our meals - fish curry with rice, fish masala with chapatti etc reasonably priced, and reasonably fast.


This is the Banda cafe taken from the terrace of the Jambo pub. The Jambo was a great place to have a Tusker or two as the sun went down (and not bad dinner either), however the Banda was a new and pretty interesting place to go. We had an incredible dinner of octopus stew (swahili spicing) with chapattis, soft drinks and african spice coffee for the princely sum of two euros.


Street food!! these are batter dipped potato slices which you buy per piece (1 shilling = 1 eurocent) and sprinkle with chilli salt, and can squeeze with lime - served either in a newspaper twist or a plastic bag depending on who you buy from. They are gooood.....