Our neighborhood.......

No sidewalks, no street lights, no speed limits for motor vehicles.....but it's home....

 Other parts of our neighborhood on the way to grocery stores and cafe....

 There is random development in the area as one plot has a large complex then an Embassy then an old house that needs attention.  Above is taken from the top of our street looking to the Indian Ocean.  Warm seas that we are recommended to swim in.

Above is the ending of a house they took down with basically a lot of man power and sledgehammers.



 I stopped one day to talk with ladies cooking here for all the construction workers.  It was a lot of smiling as they did not speak English and I exhausted my Swahili quickly. They work long days as I see them around  8 am and one night we drove by at 7:30 pm and they were just finishing their work. This is a hard way of doing a food van but the rice and meat looked good. I may stop for pictures in the future when I learned a bit more Swahili and I have some more money on me.

These pictures are of a road by a nice hotel, the Sea Cliff.  It is always flooded when it rains and let's just say it doesn't smell pretty. 

My discount supermarket ......

Not so bad as I get imported cheese from Holland here . 


Inside of the "posh" supermarket...

We can get everthing we need if we want to pay more than we do at home.  It actually has a great mix of things that are better than home because they cater to a wide variety of expats so I can get Scandinavian breads and museli, Indian foods and it has a decent fruit and nuts section. 
Plus a really nice feather pillow.......

 Kahawa cafe above market......

Good food, nice staff, reasonable prices and free WiFi. I have turned into a coffee house squatter a few days a week. 

 Main road to supermarkets...if you can see the pothole where it is wet is now huge and will probably never get fixed in the time I am here. At least it slows people down.  The posh market is on the right and it also has a pharmacy, dry cleaners and Subway.