Livingstonia

There were obligatory school meetings the following morning covering the teaching staff, the head teacher, the principal area adviser, who was awarded top regional adviser this year, and then a round of classrooms.
Hope and his family had been good hosts and I had a pretty comfortable evening. I'd had a chance to review his proposal for a regional school sports competition he was hoping to get off the ground. I introduced him to the concept of activity based costing and pilot programme principles. It seems I had learnt a few things over the years. Nonetheless there were some steep hills to address today and out the gate the second decent climb showed up. By the time lunch was due I'd made it to Livingstonia at nearly 1400m having made 1300m twice more in the process. Sitting high above Lake Malawi (530 m) on a fine day the views are outstanding. It took took the descent the next morning to get those as the weather clagged in and I knocked off the laundry. Followed by an extended visit to the local market where I parked up in a local shop, chatted with the passing town folk and enjoyed beer with chips. It felt like Friday.
The following morning was a very technical ride down the 800m of rocky and rugged switchbacks back to the lake and the tarmac of the M1. Passing the entrance to the popular resort The Mushroom Farm l spoke to a young Dutch couple who relayed I didn't need to visit as the views on the descent would be more than sufficient. Correctly. Since the rest of the journey to Karonga was slightly downhill I settled in for the 75km journey to my final Malawian overnight stop.En savoir plus