The train and kilifi

Half term started on froday  for us, with the illustrious book day taking place. This is a day when everyone (including the teachers) dresses up as their favourite book character. As many of you know, I'm not much of a book conesiour, so I opted in being harry potter. It was a fun day, with lots of activities, including blowing up things in the science lab with Hetty and raikes, but we were all looking forward to getting our taxi out of pembroke and get into Nairobi for the train!
It was a bit of a stressful taxi journey getting to the station, with traffic and hail getting involved, but we managed to get there in time for the 7pm train to Mombasa. However, i t turned out that the train was delayed for 4 hours, so we eventually got going at 11pm. The train itself is an old colonial sleeper train, and hasn't been refurbished since it was built. Therefore, it was inevitable that things might not work. We were warned beforehand that the train often breaks down with multiple delays, but fortunately the train only stopped twice, due to trains ahead of it breaking down. The amazing thing about this though, was that you could hop out when it stops and walk along the line, and meet new people. We had only scary moment when Tristan thought he saw the train drover hop back in his seat when we were outside, so we thought we might be left behind, and so ran as fast as possible to our door! Fortunately it was a false alarm!
The train itself was very comfortable indeed, with 4 man compartments. We also got supper and breakfast included in the price, which we found to not be quite to the same standard as Pembroke! Nonetheless, we scoffed it down. We eventually arrived into Mombasa at 4 pm the next day.. As soon as we got into Mombasa, it felt as if you were in a different country all together, with mosques, Arabic writing, burkas, and other very Muslim concepts. I certainly didn't think I was in Kenya! However, its the most amazing city, being the second largest in Kenya.
We finally arrived in kilifi at 8pm having taken a taxi, and had to immediately pitch our tents for the following week. Sadly, mine was broken, so am staying in to comfort of inside! Its a beautiful house in the kilifi plantation, with a pool and campfire. We're staying in the granny's house next to the aunts house (on the same premises).

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