2/12/11
Friday is a non-office day. I tidy up the accounts from the following day on the laptop, do a few domestics and then head to Nairobi. Trouble free trip this time and I even have time for an hour or so at an internet café and sort photos out from my previous blog posting.
I check into the hotel and then off to meet a friend at the bus station at 7pm. They are delayed and do not turn up until gone 9. The security advice is not to be in this area after dark!! I had waited in the café/waiting room of one of the main bus companies so was safe waiting.
We met and headed to the hotel. As we left we heard a large commotion in the adjacent Matatu terminus. Seconds later there were 5 “firecrackers” let off or so I thought. Then there was lots of shouting and people running “gun shots” was the panicked shouts. We were about 200m from the Matatu station so well away and just carried on walking “purposefully” away. Not sure of it was gun shots or just panic due to the current security status. A timely reminder though. Firecrackers i am sure - honest Mum!! Don't worry :) nothing in the papers so must have been.
Bags dropped at the hotel we nipped out for something to eat and then to a nearby bar. Much dancing there (not much from me!!) and lots of fun being had. We left around midnight and got safely back to the hotel round the corner in downtown Nairobi.
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