The Karen Blixen Museum

When we left the centre, Benson, our Uber driver, was still outside, so he took us to our next stop, the Karen Blixen Museum. We rewatched Out of Africa, the movie based on Karen’s book starring Meryl Streep and Robert Redford, just before this trip, so we were excited to see the actual farm she lived on. It was a really interesting visit. We were shown around by Annabel, an intern who has only been at the museum for three weeks. She certainly knew her stuff!

Obviously, the farm and estate are considerably smaller than when Karen lived there, and there are neighbouring properties and tarmacked roads that wouldn’t have been there in her day, but the house itself and the garden remain unchanged. I loved the house! We could really get a sense of Karen and her life there.

Benson had waited for us, so when we’d spent a couple of hours at the museum, he drove us back to Nairobi and dropped us off at a restaurant near our hotel so that we could get a late lunch/early dinner.

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