- Anyone who owns a 4×4 to solely drive around somewhere like London needs to have a go at driving Kenyan ‘roads’. In torrential rain. Think Grand Canyon-esque dips, rocks and potholes everywhere and a car perpetually sliding sideways.
- If you are hastily dismounting your horse because you have only just calmed it down from bolting and frankly want your feet on the ground again, make sure there isn’t a thorn bush blocking your descent to the ground. Or you will wonder around with spines all over your arse, crotch and legs and generally resemble a porcupine-human cross.
- Nothing causes you to develop an iron bladder quicker than the fear that a leopard is outside waiting for you if you do go out of your tent at night to visit the long-drop.
- I would like to add a South African Mastiff to my future menagerie of animals.
- Jack Russells are cunning little critters.
- Kenyan time-keeping is a little… lax to say the least.
- The best pork to be found in the Nanyuki area is at a Muslim butcher’s.
- It is slightly alarming to be the one carrying buckets of feed in a yard full of 18 very hungry horses.
- Elephants like maize.
- Mosquitos will brave the higher altitudes after a rainfall to bite you while you type a blog post.
Kenya Chapter 2: Things I have learned so far…
Ploy Radford 