Travellers Rest

On Tuesday (23rd November) we had the staff meeting as usual, lots of singing intermingled with notices. We did a short presentation on Thanks Giving for the workers explaining the history, such as the crossing of the May Flower and also the modern day celebration. I wore a self made pilgrims hat and accompanied Kristin with a slideshow of pictures on my laptop.

After the meeting I met a chap called Patric who was visiting from England, he was actually born in Kampala and grew up in Entebbe, so is Ugandan by origin. He has been in England for a year working and is back in Uganda for 3 months, then returning to Devon for a further year.
He is actually a tourist in Kisoro district and doesn't speak the local dialect and since hardly any of the locals speak lugandan (his native tongue), we were both in the same boat. I took him on the walk we'd done on Sunday and agreed to another hike Wednesday.

In the late afternoon I made my way to meet Josh for a 'soda' and cheese sandwich at Travellers Rest. This hotel was setup in the 1950's and is probably one of the first Tourist hotels set up in Uganda. It's popular with scientists and university professors studying the gorillas and chimpanzees and made particularly so by the famous American ‘gorilla-woman’ Dian Fossey who visited many times in the 60's to do paperwork, to relax or to meet people. Fossey said about the hotel: "It was my second home."
It's not quite as cheap as some of the local haunts - as you can imagine.