Today Pat and Experienced wonderful Ugandan hospitality
The morning was much cooler due to a light drizzle - the Rains re not really ueuntil March.Moses Taxi drive us to the . Village - well, Teacher George Byarugaba waited for us by the side of the road and pointed out the narrow track leading to his shamba. After greetings George showed us his farm where he grows a variety of medicinal plants including moringa and lemon grass plus maize and groundnuts and cassava plus mangoes , avocado jack fruit and pineapples His second wife cooked us a great meal of matooke (pounded savoury bananas),sweet potato and cassava with beans and ground nut sauce.
Then we went next-door to visit Harriet's family.The whole family rushed to greet us - except Harriet herself whom we had taken to begin the next term at The Masindi School for the Handicapped ,on Monday.Alice, Harriet,'s mum looked really healthy - she had had her tubes tied four years ago!We visited their borehole while Alice cooked matooke and chicken - one Charles had killed earlier for us!
When we left we were given presents of pineapple,jack fruit avocados ,ba stem of banana and mangoes which we have given to the kitchen staff at Courtview Hotel with the stipulation that we do have some for breakfast for the next few days!
Back at the hotel we showered away the dust and dined on s bottle of Nile beer
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