Nobody really prepares you for how strange and wonderful it is to be inside a city and inside the wild at the exact same time. That’s Nairobi National Park for you lions on one side of the road, the Nairobi skyline rising up behind them on the other, like the city forgot to draw a line between itself and the savannah. I went in expecting a quiet morning drive. I left having had one of the better days of the whole trip.
I’d sorted my shillings the evening before, sitting in my hotel room with a cup of tea and absolutely no urgency about it. Opened Spendin, picked KES, sent the amount through, done in under a minute. No bureau de change queue the next morning, no haggling over a rate that always seems to favour the person quoting it. Just funds ready, sitting in the right currency, waiting for me to actually use them. Small thing, but it changes the entire tone of a mor
