Gina and Andrew's Zesty Zanzibar

A slight deviation to today's post, we are going to talk about Stone Town's doors. But before we go there a little bit about last night. So Ginz and I decided to venture to the Forodhani Night Food Market held each night near the foreshore. Vendors aplenty selling seafood, chicken and beef skewers, along with felafel and other vegetarian delights. It was a sensory overload and the food abundant, more abundant than could be consumed in one night; read between the lines! We played it safe as we started feeling a little fragile from the safari. A couple of chapatis, a fried potato ball and fried banana to share. We then ordered a chicken skewer as Doctor Doolittle had to feed the congregating stray cats! Cats are the same everywhere we noted. These were mangy, flea ridden, starving critters but a few of the buggers still turned their nose to the coal cooked chicken. Cats, spawn of the devil! So the next day we are booked for a spice market tour but our Tanzanian belly is ...

We will, we will ROCK you!! Yes for all those music buff's out there we have landed in Zanzibar, the home of Farrokh Bulsara, better known as Freddie Mercury. Born in Zanzibar in 1946 and lived here until he was 8 years old before boarding school in India. He returned to the family home for a short while before the family migrated to England.  So like any good tourist attraction you cash in on the fact he returned here sometime later in his life and stayed in this room. So now its famous right? Zanzibar, one of my favorite words. Sounds interesting, exotic and mysterious. So far it's a shock to our senses. Safety is questionable and the heat is unbearable. This said, we soldiered on to discover Stone Town as i'ts better developed than Arusha with footpaths and bitumen roads and the centre of Stone Town has hotels galore.  Stating the bleeding obvious, we stand out in the crowd and this makes for an easy target to be body snatched in the streets - the ha...