Duka

Welcome to our neighbourhood.  We live in the house to the right of the first picture, on a road of mixed quality (it has some tarmac, some mud, some sand, some large pot holes) in a suburban area but not far from the town centre.

Many of you of course will be familiar with the 'cornershop' - that little shop that used to exist all over the UK before the supermarket giants put most of them out of business.  Here the cornershop is called the 'duka' and we have one right on our corner - literally on the corner of our house!

The duka is run by Eric who sells beer, soda, flour, eggs, toiletries, batteries, glue, and 101 other useful things that you might just need in a crisis.  Having a duka 6.5 seconds walk from your front door has some benefits, it does also mean that it's a little noisy at night as locals sit round and enjoy and evening drink!  Eric is the guy in the checked shirt standing next to Beth.  I've no idea who the other two Tanzanians are, but Isaac was happy enough to go to one of them!