After all that we were pretty much dead, I did some washing while it rained outside and we had some of the more hopeless articles of clothing done by the laundry service in our Hotel. After that was dinner at 'Nairobi Burgers' near the hotel and back to do more washing, write my Journal and read my book. Not a very exciting day but we really needed to get organised for the rest of our trip.
They had a pretty cool, if low-tech, internet set-up in Nairobi at the 'Thorntree'. The majority of users use a 'fidonet' network which is served over the phone-lines connected to a DOS computer. This, in turn, is connected to a linux box via ethernet connection, the linux box acted as a gateway - filtering e-mail for transmission over the internet. They said they usually had a leased-line connection but that was out of action because of water (El Nino!). All of Kenya's telecommunications goes through a single satellite transmission centre on the Rift Valley!
We are basically just killing time for the rest of the day, we went and saw 'Face Off' at the movies, which was a novel experience since the audience all applauded and cheered at the appropriate parts of the movie. We then got dinner back at the hotel and caught our bus to Mombassa, which was interesting...