The life of a celebrity parasitologist is never dull. For example, on Thursday I'm off to Kenya for a week for mixture of business and R&R. This time I'm leaving Ravel in charge (see how much I trust my co-workers), and taking with me instead the wonderfully aromatic Mrs Dr McCrumble. It will be her FIRST trip to Africa, believe it or not.The brief is as follows: for a couple of days I'll be holed up inside an air conditioned hotel conference room attending a meeting of parasitologists whilst Mrs Dr McC suns herself on a Mombasa beach. Then we'll take off together for a few days of safari before heading home in time for Easter. For those of you stuck in good old blighty, here are a couple of pictures I took on my last visit to this hotel, about a year ago....
Now don't get jealous or anything, but this place has 4 swimming pools and serves some of the best food on the coast 3 times a day. The only thing missing is any of the local flying fauna. That's right. They use so much insect repellant that your clothes become permanently impregnated. I haven't had a problem with those devilish Scottish midges since I first visited here as a PhD student in 2001.
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Don't say admiring things about the lions when you're on safari. That kind of silly human talk is very offensive to those who live in the shadow of those brutes. I hope Ravel makes the most of his freedom.
I don't see many lions due to the fact that they received a bad press many years ago for eating several railway workers and have been forced to stay away from the parks I normally visit. Is there anyone you want me to say hello to whilst I'm there?
Ravel has promised to look after the Institute. I trust him implicitly.
You can send my regards to Leakey if you see him. There was also a famous Kenyan gorilla who who met Paul McCartney in the 1960s. Probably no longer alive, but you may run into his descendants.
I might run into Leakey, but as for any gorillas....well, I think most of them emigrated to South Western Uganda after Idi Amin was exiled.
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