Happy Christmas from Zanzibar!

We'd like to wish you all a very happy and peaceful Christmas. You'll be delighted to hear we obtained our visas for Tanzania with no further ado, and here we are spending Christmas in the tropics. We're also happy to report that the situation in Ethiopia is calming down, although the famine and drought are as severe as ever. If you've been praying for us - thank you!

A Bushbaby Ate My Soap

A Christmas tree made out of driftwood and starfish in our resort restaurantGoing to the bathroom first thing in the morning I looked for the soap. It had been there, right in that glass dish, when I went to bed last night but now it’s missing. How odd. A quick hunt reveals the small round tablet of hotel soap behind  the sink, except it isn't round anymore as one side has clearly been nibbled away.