Lake Malawi and on to Lilongwe

Place: Lilongwe

Tunes: Kotiteollisuus

It's a nice view to wake up to.

Views from the breakfast room.

These things liven up the hotel quite a bit.

At the hotel after an easy day. 

The coast road. 

 Today’s program was as follows. Sleep late and then race to Lilongwe.

We have been looking for stickers for the flag of Malawi but the chances of finding one is slim. We found this local artist yesterday who offered to sort some out for us. Great. She delivered the goods this morning. Hand-painted flags covered in plastic. We just need to tape these on and we are all sorted!

The breakfast was possibly the best one I have had in Africa. Freshly made bread, butter, jam, some fried eggs that actually tasted of something and some tomato and onion sauce that was excellent. The day could not start any better.

But the pessimist is never disappointed...

Settling the bills at the resort was a typical African affair. When we check in they say, ”visa no problem”. When you try and check out, it first takes thirty minutes to add up what you spent and then they say ”visa machine broken for three weeks, cash only”. If you have no currency, they will accept USD with their ”special” rates. All of this is completely normal in this place.

Once we got going, the ”team slow” lost the race fair and square. Shit happens sometimes. When we got to the hotel we were running on fumes but I guess the road racers went fast enough to refuel before we caught up. Nothing special happened on the road and we did not do anything to liven things up. Today the beach road along Lake Malawi was nothing that special to be honest.The next hotel is pretty dull but there is internet here at least. The rooms are very hot and there is no aircon. Next door there is a nice restaurant run by a Brit who has been in the restaurant business for ages all around the world. The customers were almost all white and I think this is one of the best places for food in town. The steaks hit the spot even if the expectations were raised to levels that could not actually be met by the kitchen.