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Andy and I are up very early and take a walk down to the lake, where the fishermen are coming ashore with the night's catch, and their wives and kids assess the catch.
Day 21. Fri 11th October Mzuzu - Chikangawa
DaveMidgley2005-10-22 12:53:36
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Andy and I are up very early and take a walk down to the lake, where the fishermen are coming ashore with the night's catch, and their wives and kids assess the catch.
After all the rough treatment my left sandal finally gives up the ghost, and I flap back the hotel for breakfast.
After breakfast we pile into the Land Rovers once more and set off down Lake Malawi, stopping off in Mzuzu at lunchtime.
Before lunch we explore the market, and when an over-enthusiatic trader tries to sell us potatoes, I point out that we don't need spuds, but I would like to get my sandal repaired. He immediately takes me by the hand and leads me off through the market stalls to a mate who agrees to mend my sandal for the princely sum of 20MK (about 15p), and does a pretty good job of it too. I take his picture while he works, and get the usual reaction when I show him and his mates the display.
The trader next door also wants his photograph taken in front of his stall, and when I go to take it I see why!
Whether or not Farts is his name I never discover, but he obviously knows what it means in English and we all have a good schoolboy chortle and make farting noises at each other for a while. Then my friend the potato seller leads me back his his stall where the others are waiting, which is just as well as I doubt if I could have found it by myself. He obviously wants a commission, and makes puffing gestures, so I buy him a handful of local cigarettes at 2MK each from another stall, and he goes off very happy.
We eat at Polly's Cafe, which is full of wazungu - we haven't seem so many white faces all together since we arrived. Mzuzu is obviously a popular tourist spot.
We set off again, and soon turn away from the lake and climb steeply up the side of the rift valley. About a mile up we come upon a broken down truck Another truck is coming down the hill towards us, and, with complete disregard
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Malawi Gallery
