Day 32 Chinteche Inn Campsite

Lazy day on the beach planned. 

Having been woken at about 4 am by the German overlanders packing up their enormous truck / hotel (Das Rollanderhotel – something like that, anyway is was huge) on wheels, we were up and about from the crack of dawn. Breakfast has improved enormously as we were able to buy Marmite!!  

We spent the first couple of hours doing the housework, a load of washing, sweeping out some of the Nyika dust and shaking all the bed covers out – washing them will have to wait for another day! 

All the chalets in the lodge were booked for a conference (can’t even get away from conferences here!) so we had the beach to ourselves.  We then spent a couple of hours lying in the sun on the beach before a quick swim in Lake Malawi – we happened to choose the moment that the wind picked up so it was extremely choppy and very unlike any lake swimming we’ve ever done.  After lunch another hour on the beach by which time the lake was calmer so we had a more pleasant swim.  Especially for Ian’s colleagues, you will be happy to see that the parrots are well and enjoying the sun.

Fantastic dinner of pot roast chicken washed down with several bottles of green (ie Carlsberg larger – they have taken over the market here in Malawi).  Rest of evening spent uploading entries onto the blog as the wifi was back up and running, and was surprisingly fast.