Nairobi, Kenya

I was in Nairobi for work at the end of July. This trip was ridiculously short. We landed Monday evening and flew out late Friday night. I didn't even really eat particularly Kenyan food. I would have liked to have stayed longer or seen more of the city, but there was not really time to get comfortable in navigating and can be risky to explore alone. Next time I go somewhere outside of Europe, I need to try to get more out of the trip. The purpose of the trip was to check out the operations of some of the players in the water and sanitation field there and conduct a workshop. All of this went really well, but I am not supposed to talk about what we did, so instead of riveting discussion about the trickier bits of running your own water or sanitation service, I will just quickly show some of the other bits of the trip. One thing that I did notice was that it was much calmer than Accra or other cities in Africa that I have visited. When I did walk around some parts of the city, only once did I get called after and there was no hissing.

You don't get to escape toilet talk that easily, I paid ten cents to go into a public toilet in a park (I was just curious) and the attendant handed me some toilet paper. The stall didn't have enough depth to get a good photo, but it was a squatting toilet (very common in other parts of the world) and the tank was tied together with string. Overall pretty clean and functional. 

The hotel I stayed in made a pretty okay burrito (better than my Estonian Burrito) and a surprisingly giant and yummy choclate chip cookie. They also carried the locally produced Sierra beer, which had the silhouette of an ostrich on the bottle cap.  I bought fancy Kenyan coffee and postcards of the more exciting aspects of the country in the giftshop.

I took notes during a workshop with an "Obama Smoothline" pen.

Prototype of a new squatting model. 

Lunch at the workshop came in these cool containers with special sections for soup and rice!
Sort of like source separating toilets, but on the other side of the equation.