Sometimes ESL Provides Clarity

As many of you will know, we recently spent a week in Zanzibar.  One evening we went to the harbour for some local street food.  Yes the place was a tourist trap, but we still ate for only a few dollars and the seafood was only hours out of the ocean.

Cane Juice Press

One of the standard booths was offering fresh sugar cane juice flavoured with local lemon and ginger.  They had presses which squeezed the juice from the cane as you watched.  The same booths also offered up fresh mango/pineapple/watermelon juice and a variety of sodas.  Here’s how the sales pitch went:

Do you want some cane juice?  No (Editors note: we did have cane juice and it was delicious, but there were about 20 different guys doing the same thing so we couldn’t say yes to all of them)

Do you want some fruit juice?  No

With exasperation: Some chemical?  Blank looks…

You know, Coke, Fanta….?  Look of understanding, no definitely not that.

I know there are some very healthy things out there that might technically fall under the category of chemical, but soda isn’t one of them.  We stuck to cane and fruit juice that evening.

And now a few pictures from our trip. (Photo credit to one of Kathy, Ron, Lisa, Lora, Kaitlyn or Luke)  For more photos click here.

Street Food

Endangered Tortoise (we saw one that was 150 years old)

We noticed this as we were exiting but the staff were handing out greens for feeding.  Mixed signals to say the least.

Mantis sitting on Indian Cardamom during our spice tour

Sunset on the beach

Beautiful

The narrow streets of Stone Town.  Could have been lost in there for days without my trusty Nafziger guides.

Spice tour paraphernalia made from palm leaves

Giant grouper BBQ on the beach.  This was our entire lunch unless you count the limes we squeezed on top.  The six of us finished about half of it.

Group shot right outside the back door of our house on the beach.