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From 1970s England to this

Bagamoyo beach, in 1971 it was pristine


Mr and Mrs R Steinhardt
4, Rue Ronsard
92 Meudon - La Foret
France

November 1971

Dear Granny and Grandpa how are you?

We have been doing a lot and going everywhere. The school has many activities in the afternoon. We are practically always occupied with something or another and we have lots of colourful posters. It's about 90 degrees, a cool day for Dar-es-salaam. The people in this flat we live in are very friendly and we often borrow things from them like knives and forks. We have barbecues over a charcoal grill. Food here is cheap (the barbecue costing 8 shillings).

Every Saturday we go with Pam and Ilundi, her daughter, or Marga and Tana, her daughter, to Karioco market, where you can buy every imagineable kind of fish, ladies fingers, red chillies, artichokes and all manner of seafood is there on sale like shrimp, sea urchins, Tuna, Kingfish, Rabbit fish. There are also lots of live fowl, beef and lamb, but no pork because the Muslim religion says that pork is unclean meat.

We also have a cat called Aboy - strange name - but this was not our choice. We have a Renault 16. It is a very good car, a special model.

We have tons of friends now that we are back in Africa. We always go on picnics with our friends in our car, with: Pam, Ilundi, Marcelino, John, Josiah, Marga, Tana, Mario George French, his giggly sister and about 13 other people. Come with us!

Around the flat I have made a platform as high as the 8th floor in a tall tree, We perform many antics on a rope which hangs down from it.

Yesterday we went to Bagamoyo, the place where Livingston was carried to by his porters. It used to be the capital of Tanganyka. It has lovely carved Arabian doors. When we were there our guide showed us a mountain of salt which we climbed up and later took samples of.

Love Philip

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