Monday, March 27, 2006

Take me to the beach!

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.

4 comments:

Gorilla Bananas said...

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.

Dr Joseph McCrumble said...

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.

Gorilla Bananas said...

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.

Dr Joseph McCrumble said...

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.