Invitations, Eldoret, Kenya

James who is a good friend of my father and a pastor for a big church here in Eldoret showed me around a bit today in the afternoon. With his new car we visited his old house in the slum, the huge church he had built and thereafter we rounded up for a dinner in his nice new house. He made sure I got chicken as that is what he was always served in my parents home when he visited Sweden. Chicken was served with Ugali and cabbage.

Yesterday I was invited to my colleague Julius place where Chicken and rice was on the menu. He had a nice tradition of eating from the same plate with his girlfriend. Always nice to visit peoples homes as you get a better connection with the life and culture of a place.

Working the night shift, Nairobi

Met up with my sister Debbie at her horse jumping competition this afternoon and borrowed her car to take my Finnish Colleague Ville to Nairobi national park. At the moment Ville (and I) are working with students from Chepkoilel University on developing an educational forestry game for android tablets.

Jordan wine estate

A five star meal with Andrés, Paula and his parents.

Caledon hot springs, South Africa

Me and Heidi went to Caledon for the weekend to enjoy the hot springs there. With the hot pools it did not matter that the weather wasn't that great. They pumped the water from the springs into a highly located pool that was 44 degrees (too hot), as the water from one pool filled up the next the other pools gradually decreased in temperature (40, 38, 34 and 28). A truly enjoyable weekend where we also did an hour of horse riding.

Testing my new kayak, Strand

Kleinmond/Hermanus

Did a Coastal drive along the whale coast but the only whale we saw was here in Gordons bay only few km from where we stay in Strand. Since the whales were hiding at the world famous whale spotting town Hermanus, we instead went to Arabella's in Kleinmond where we enjoyed some sauna and spa treatments.

Crayfish party, Bollnäs

Now I start to feel ready for heading south again as I even got my share of this nice old Swedish tradition.

Mushroom cooking at Vanamokatu

Erkki exposed some unknown skills with his vast mushroom knowledge.

Sutinen's family rules

Engine swop

After a nice team work between father and son we managed to swop engines on the lawnmower. My sister got a new one with a faulty engine and an old one that had numerous other problems.