
Mile 327 and an unofficial tree post office: Nairobi’s time capsule
In 1890, a British railroad camp was set up on the Kampala- Mombasa railway and simply called Mile 327. Today it goes by the name of Nairobi.
In 1890, a British railroad camp was set up on the Kampala- Mombasa railway and simply called Mile 327. Today it goes by the name of Nairobi.
When cracking a crab shell by the sea one evening, I heard of Gede from the waiter trying to help me with it as Dean Martin’s That’s Amore played in the background.
Once a cluster of hamlets and temporary home to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in the 1890s, Klosters, I’d been told, was at odds with its reputation as an ‘exclusive, classy hideout’ of the super-rich. What side of it was I going to see or experience?