1. Claire offers a successful bush toilet stop ‘Because no-one saw my arse.’ In the country there are no public loos so we must go where we can, and the avoiding crops rule means that you are quite desperate by the time you get there. If you are lucky, there’s a bush to hide behind: if not, it’s boys on one side of the truck, girls on the other. We squat together, giggling at the strangeness and wobbliness of it.
2. We sit by the pool taking a our first proper look at the Indian Ocean. Rob, who is an East Coast of the US boy, says he has never seen the sun set over the sea before.
3. Vodka slushies in metal cups covered in cool condensation. They are a lot stronger than they taste and quite soon I am feeling pleasingly lightheaded and reckless.
Marangu to Dar, Tanzania
