Classic Lodge

It's exhausting lying on a sun lounger on an empty beach looking at this view and swimming in the lake (Btw for those of you who know him the silhouette is Justus!)

So on Thursday we went to Classic Lodge, 15mins from home, which has been recently built (possibly on the site of the 'special place' that Nathan took us to in 2007 - see earlier in blog if interested!) and spent the morning lying looking at this instead.

We had the place to ourselves, and it costs £3 to swim in the pool. It's pretty spectacular swimming with the mountains in the background! I'm being flippant about the swimming and relaxing but actually this is the first time I've come out to Rwanda purely to have a holiday. And Pam has not been very well recently, so this is very much about relaxing rather than volunteer working which I've done in the past. We had a lovely quiet time, and another muzungu friend of Pam's joined us as well. Jane has been living here for 8 years with Isaac, her Rwandan partner. 

In the afternoon we acquired some mix for Rwandan porridge - eight different types of grain - mixed with water and milk. Millet, maize, rice, white sorghum, red sorghum  sosoma, wheat and soya! It wasn't quite how I remembered Jackie making it for us (Tubakunde house girl) twelve years ago  but she probably didn't have quite as many grains! Was delicious though, and I'm sitting on the veranda, in the early morning sun  while everyone else sleeps, getting hungry thinking about it. Time to go and see if I can do as good a job as Justus did making it yesterday!!

Additional: since writing the above I spent a good half an hour making Rwandan porridge. Delighted with my results I then discovered I had made it with gone off milk! I've resorted to toast and marmalade .. How very British!