lake

Time to get out. There was a spate of petrol available for about 3 days (roughly—depending on when and where you were in town) so we decided that a lake weekend was needed. We left early Saturday morning after having a relaxing barbeque next door (this was the night before I moved out of my great view). Ute, Noel, and I went to senga bay…our first choice of accommodation was full and they recommended us stay at tom’s bar and we would be able to use all of their amenities—restaurant and beach…well, we checked it out but tom’s bar wasn’t on the beach and it was quite a ways from cool runnings so we opted to just find something ourselves. Went down a bit farther and found 3 places…none of them had grass but we picked the one with the most shade…and there were rooms on the second floor and had a view from a balcony…not that we would spend much time in the room but nice.
Swim, sleep, swim, read…nice. Dinner that night I wanted fish…shouldn’t be too hard—we’re at the lake. On the menu is chambo (only found in lake Malawi) and kampango…whole, filleted, curry, etc. ok. We would like 3 kampango filleted. Well, we don’t have. Ok then the chambo. No only whole. (what is the point of a menu?) then he tells us there is only 1 kampango fillet. So I get the fillet, noel orders the whole chambo, and ute opts for chicken curry. Off to change and shower as dinner won’t be ready for at least an hour and it is time to hide from the mosquitos…then he comes to us and says that the kampango is finished…so I change to chicken curry as well. At least I thought I did because when we got served our dinner I actually got chambo fillet…it was good…we didn’t complain; we were just a little confused.
That night we had our overhead fan on and were quite comfortable in our beds. (the last time I stayed here nothing moved all night—even with the fan…it was stifling) and then about 1am the wind started up…not usually a problem to have more breeze but then we found out that the tin roof above our balcony wasn’t properly attached…and for the rest of the night every couple of minutes it sounded like a car crash was happening as the wind would pick up the panel and then drop it…ah well, I guess you can’t have it all…