Zanzibar 5th avenue

Its not all poverty and squallor here in deepest, darkest Africa you know! For the record, I do not ride a Zebra to work and have never, not once, found a lion in my garden - as fierce as she is, the neighbour's Siamese doesn't count! What we do have, is a very sharp sense of humour and an ability to rip ourselves off better than anyone else can hope to. As proof, I sumbit these pics of beach-front stalls found on the beautiful, serene, magical beaches of Zanzibar (an island off the cost of Tanzania, the country just below Kenya, if that helps).

These arts/crafts/beadwork and occasional jewellery sellers know how to catch the tourists' attention and they also know how to use the internet, be it from what most people would consider a shack somewhere in the jungle with antennas tied to the tops of coconut trees - no seriously, its amazing what people do to get things to work for them. More on the beautiful scenery there another time, for now, enjoy the humour of the people of Zanzibar. Hakuna matata!