Safe in Nairobi (and more birds!)

Jambo! We're safely in Nairobi, although a little bleary after flying at 3am from Mumbai for five and a half hours, and arriving at 6:30am in the morning (we just had an impassioned argument about whether it is now Tuesday or Wednesday - that's how bleary). It's sunny now, although when we arrived it was cold and raining - it could easily have been Birmingham International on a grey April morning if it hadn't been for the acacia trees. We've already seen loads of big maribou storks in the trees, a brown bird with a long tail (as yet unidentified), and bought an East African bird book to get us started. We've found and been made really welcome in Nairobi Youth Hostel; booked our bus tickets to Kisumu (with a bit of hassle); been offered about twelve safari packages by very polite salespeople; eaten (we tried Nando's - but it was disappointing); and heard a great band playing, just sitting scruffily on a street corner (about the only scruffy Kenyans we've seen so far ...) We'll blog more soon, but evidence so far suggests that getting words and pictures up on the web is going to be almost as hard as from China: so apologies if we only put them up in big lumps when we can. And sorry if this is laid out funny! Blog you all soon! R, M, H, M xx