Tag: Makindu

• Travelling the Mombasa Road with Google

  

  All week it had rained. It looked like it would rain all weekend. ‘What do Kenyans do when it rains?’I once asked a Kenyan friend when I first arrived here in the mid-1980s. ‘If they can afford to, they stay indoors,’ he said. That’s what I did last weekend. When, a few months ago, I […]

  John Fox

  15/05/2016

  Travel

  Makindu, Nairobi, Place Names, Street Names

• The Sikh Temple at Makindu

  

  We started early last Sunday. Just before dawn. We were hoping to get a clear head start on all those many who we assumed would be sleeping off the hangovers of their Saturday nights out, or even their Friday office parties, before joining the Christmas exodus to the Coast. But even before it was time […]

  John Fox

  28/12/2008

  Food, Travel

  Gurudwara, Makindu, Mombasa Road, Sikh Temple