When you go to bed early, you get up early. We had breakfast overlooking the lake and then Robs went off for a long swim, while the rest of us watched, lazily.
It is amazing how much food gets consumed with grown up kids around. Gray and I were eventually throwing away a small carton of long life milk and now we go through a carton for breakfast. Not only milk was being consumed at a rapid rate but at breakfast we realised we were out of sugar, so this meant a trip into Chintheche town. Kirst heard the word “shop” and she was off to the showers for a hair wash, leg shave, in fact a total make over, before putting on a cute little number, that a few years ago, would have been illegal in Muslim Malawi. Her friends will be pleased to hear she hasn’t gone totally ‘Camel Kid’ on us and still has her standards, even in rural Malawi.
We drove down the main street of Chintheche, all 1km of it, past all sorts of stalls and found a small ‘People’s Superette’. Besides sugar, we stocked up on cold drinks, chips and tonics for our Malawian Gin. Ten minutes later we were on our way back to camp, it had taken Kirst longer to titivate, than the drive and shop put together. She is going to kill me for this.
Back ‘home’ we spent the morning swimming and chilling in the sun. Later on we drifted back to our camp area for lunch – left over hamburgers made into jaffles by Chef Gareth. The girls (including myself) played board games till the early sunset. We went to the restaurant for dinner, where the girls (excluding myself) had the biggest chunks of steak around and the boys and I had chambo.
We managed to get to bed a little later – around 8:00.
Chintheche Beach
Can't wait to visit Malawi! Thanks for the info.
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