The 1000 Day Holiday

Well, it has to be expected.

The Train was due to depart Tabora 9pm. It didnt arrive at the station till 12:40am. and didt depart till 1:40am.

However, we weren’t kept unamused. They played very loud techo thru the PA system. Such classics as the Venga Boys and others.

All in all, a nice ride tho, and much more comfortable than the Buses.

Dodoma is the Capital. Although not much actually happens here. a quaint small town, thats been planned. So everything is really spread out on grid style streets.

Patric the German gains quote of the Day status.

I was looking at a fruit and vege stall. And exclaimed at the size of their enormous avacados.

He said “you can’t buy that”.

I asked why not

“because it doesn’t taste good unless its cooked”  

Kirsten (german) & myself just looked at him. Hes even a Vegetarian!

Also, found a market where everyone brings 30L plastic buckets full of their home brew maize beer. Foreigners never go there, so we were quite the entertainment. lots of people coming over offering samples of their brew.

Some were really rough. however I settled on a Tamarillo infused version. Patric a standard maize flavour. 1Litre for 50cents.

Limited ourselves to one round. Not sure if the alcohol content would sterilise the ditch water or whatever it was made from. (No problems a couple of days on – What are the symptoms of Typhoid???)