Your former glories, and all the stories, dragged and washed with eager hands

[tenlittlebullets]

Sitting in the Nairobi airport en route to the Comoros again. What do you know, Nairobi is actually lovely and awesome instead of a hellhole of misery if you listen to your travel agent when she says "You've got an overnight layover in Nairobi, do you want me to book a hotel in town?" Either I'm getting too old to sleep slumped over my luggage on an airport bench, or it just isn't romantic and adventurous to do so when you're traveling for work and have to be compos mentis for meetings later in the day.

In any case, this trip should be sliiiightly more relaxed than last time I was in the Comoros, which is not a high bar to reach considering I was working twelve-hour days six days a week last time and only even made it into town once or twice. Maybe I'll be able to see the island a bit this time! Go snorkeling! See the world's largest species of fruit bat! Even go up the volcano and peer inside! (Cue nervous fidgeting from the side of my brain that still has "Cities in Dust" playing on infinite loop, but shush, it's a runny volcano, not a splodey volcano like Pompeii's.) Or at least, you know, go wandering around the old medina and get hopelessly turned around and get sick from street food, that'd be fun too.

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[a-phoenixdragon.livejournal.com]

Ohhh, at least you've gots a place to stay and some time to play in! That's rather awesome! and Nairobi!! DUDE.

*HUGS*

[10littlebullets.livejournal.com]

Yup! Not so much in Nairobi, alas--I had just enough time to get to the hotel, grab dinner, and sleep for six hours or so before I had to go catch my flight out. Which is a shame, because Nairobi looked interesting in my quick drive through--the familiar street vendors and corrugated-steel kiosks and decades-old concrete buildings and the like you get in most African cities, mixed in with glittering skyscrapers and brand-new shopping malls. Buuuuut now I've got a ten-day stay on a tropical island to look forward to, so I'm not too cut up about missing Nairobi.

[mmebahorel.livejournal.com]

Yay, you're alive! :)

And that answers the question I forgot to ask last week - "are you seeing the French-language Les Liaisons Dangereuses at Shakespeare this week?" No, because you're working. So that's settled :)

Go look in the volcano, because I've always wanted to do that sort of thing but I've never been anywhere near an active volcano of any type.

[10littlebullets.livejournal.com]

Alas, French-language stuff at Shakespeare would be awesome, but that would be one hell of a commute.

This one is active indeed--I think it last erupted in 2006. Will have to see if there are weekend excursions available.

[collectingbees.livejournal.com]

Cities in Dust, yesssssssssssss

[10littlebullets.livejournal.com]

Yesssss. Finally burned a CD of Siouxsie singles to play in the car.

[collectingbees.livejournal.com]

Do you have their entire catalog/ would you like it? Because I have it. :)