08.29 Arusha Center Tourist Inn (http://arushatouristinnhotel.com) and room 207 is still our home here in Tanzania. We are, despite the long, leisurely and almost undisturbed sleep, a little slow. After all, at this point we have been on the move in four weeks. The only thing that disturbed our sleep was an early call for prayers.

09.06 Breakfast will be consumed in the restaurant located on the ground floor. It was also where we had lunch and dinner yesterday.

09.33 The first and also the last breakfast this day is over. There was some to choose from, in all the cases in the menu. It was a little bit less to choose between in reality. But in any case we got something to eat. Now the day is planned. We have two days here in Arusha. On the first of these days we´ll just take a look around in the city. We hope to be able to do some kind of tour tomorrow.

10.30 Now that the day is planned, it has become time to visit our new home city. Arusha is a large city with many different parts. We are happy to walk to the city centre where, among other things, there is a museum and a clocktower.

10.45 It is easy to walk around in Arusha. We have walked through our home block and has now reached the main street through the city.

We are leaving room 207 to explore Arusha city.

11.09 After having walked over the broken sidewalks and escaped from the hat sellers, we are now inside Cafe Barrista (http://cafebarrista.com). It is time for coffee. It is still too early for lunch but coffee and snacks will probably go down.

11.45 Coffee was swallowed, the Wi-Fi network has been used and we have been continuing our sightseeing here in the city. We have photographed the clock tower in the centre and went inside the tourist information to ask about the prices for the various safaris and tours. They had no clear answer, but spoke in general what fees are included when you go on a safari. If it's going to be some adventure tomorrow, we will probably ask at our hotel later. In a small souvenir shop next to the tourist information, I bought a few postcards and asked for a souvenir glass. They had none but would call a boss to check. After the call I heard the sum 65 000 shillings, more than US$39 for a glass. There was no deal.

12.25 We continued to wander around in the centre of Arusha. Pretty soon we were stopped by a man who knew, guessed that we were from Sweden. Was it skill or just luck? Now it will be lunch at the restaurant AfriCafé. Here many foreigners have gathered.

12.38 The term ”Mixed grill” appeared in the menu and that we could not resist. Sometimes it means a meat feast, sometimes something more modest, but always worth a try. We came to the restaurant at the right time. Since we got here, guests have been pouring in, it starts to be a shortage of tables.

13.20 After lunch, we walked back towards the home block. We both made a stop for a beverage purchases. I also went inside at the post office to buy stamps and outside i , I finally bought a souvenir glass. One of the gentlemen in the store had been finding me again and came up with a much better deal.

Café Barrista, Arusha.

The clocktower in central Arusha.

Lunch at AfriCafé.

Today´s mixed grill-lunch.

13.43 The walk home continued, and we learned that a litre of diesel costs 1804 shillings, it is less than US$1. We have just arrived home to the hotel, only to realize that the room is not cleaned. We will probably head out for a walk again.

14.21 We have walked on new streets further west in the city. We have successfully navigated our way to the bus company Dar Express ticket office and arranged with a bus from Moshi to Dar es Salaam on July 29th, that's on Friday. Tickets for the short bus journey to Moshi the day before, will be bought on the bus that goes there. This we were told by a cheerful woman who did her best to help us.

15.10 We are now back at the hotel. It is not yet cleaned in our room. In addition, I have without success been looking for a bin/waste basket anywhere in the city. I was going to throw my worn out shorts that have been with me since I bought them in San Salvador in 2011. Now, I throw the pants into the room's rubbish bin instead.

15.24 We have left the room to give the cleaners a chance to finish. They are cleaning and we have been talking with the hotel manager/safari organizer inside his office and he offered us a price of 130 US-dollars each to be on an excursion to the Ngorongoro crater. It was not the kind of tour we expected (too far and time consuming) and it was also expensive for our budget here. However, we can afford a beer each. It is what we ordered right now here in the hotel restaurant. It appears to be yet another day here in Arusha tomorrow.

16.59 Our room is cleaned, the dirt is gone and so is the hot water right now.

Boma Road, Arusha.

The Arusha freedom monument is not far from where we are staying.

The vodka car has parked outside our hotel.

18.20 We have dozed in the room, I've solved a crossword puzzle, we have read in our books and looked around on various pages and online social media. An article about a lifeguard who told a 5-year-old girl to take on a bikini top has made the social media explode. People believe that this is due to the adaptation to islam, the lifeguard is an unaccompanied muslim refugee and other foolish theories. Any single person suggested, however, that maybe it was a substitute lifeguard that overinterpreted the rules because of uncertainty. We think that it is strange, awful that some trolls see an islamic threat everywhere they look. How can almost everything that takes place in Sweden depend on the adaptation of the muslims?

20.06 Now, if the trolls that commented on the event are right, and everything in the world is made to adapt to the muslims, that might be the reason that there are only a few pork dishes in the hotel restaurant and that they are most often not possible to order. Well, we shall, in all cases, eat today's dinner here at the hotel and treat us a Safari for 2300 shillings, around US$1.50. Thus, it is a beer. The Safari is cheaper to drink than to go on.

21.10 It was good to eat again. There was nothing wrong with the Safari but the Kilimanjaro beer is tastier. It has become time for some TV viewing on our TV, which oddly enough, stands inside a towel rack.

22.57 The evening disappears to the benefit of the night. We have managed to make another day pass. How will we handle tomorrow? One day we planned to be outside the city will now be spent in the city.

Wednesday 27th of July

07.46 A new morning is here and the money has flowed into our bank accounts, it will be needed. It's all about the monthly salary from home, no donations.

07.55 The news announces that Hillary Clinton will be the democratic president candidate in the upcoming US president election. For us, it will be yet another day in Arusha. As mentioned earlier, we have had to cancel plans for a safari. It costs too much in these parts. We may have to enjoy the memories of the animals we´ve already seen this summer.

08.30 We are reached by the news of the death of another former Swedish party leader. Last time it was Thorbjörn Fälldin. This time it is CH Hermansson, former communist party leader in the 1960´s who has passed away.

09.40 Yet another breakfast has been enjoyed in the hotel restaurant. It is time to seriously plan the day. What will we do on this bonus day?

10.25 This seems to slide towards to be a pretty dull day. Not much can happen as long as we remain inside the room though.

11.20 Now everything is planned and clear. We have a strategy, a plan for the rest of the day. We also continue to be surprised and upset about some Swedish citizen's total bigotry regarding refugees and immigrants in the social media. Some live in the belief that rape and abuse is an absolutely new phenomenon, which is created by the newcomers as well as that the media and the politicians are participating in a conspiracy where they lie and hide real news for the people. Time to leave the virtual world. The reality here we come!

We are ready for today´s lunch.

Calamari and skewers at Fifi´s Restaurant.

Behind the glass.

Fifi´s Restaurant & Café, Arusha.

11.57 After a moment of walking, we´ve returned to the Café Barrista (http://cafebarrista.com). On the way here, we have been offered to buy both maps and hats. There has not been any business transactions.

12.28 Now we have become active. The coffee stop is over and we walked the short distance to the nearby and recommended restaurant Fifi's (http://www.fifistanzania.com). Here, it will now become lunch for us.

13.19 It was a very appropriate and just in time for lunch. It was both filling and good. We will, as soon as we have paid, continue our little escapade. Fifi's is a nice place with international guests, homemade bread, jams and other fun things.

14.06 The lunch ended and we returned to the street vendors. We ignored once again all of the offers before we slipped into a grocery store. There we bought some beverages for ourselves and even some gifts for relatives. We got new deals as soon as we reached the street. I seem to have asked for a Tanzanian experience. That could be taken care of as soon as I was up for it. We were saved by the post office where I left my postcards before we slowly strolled home to the hotel. We took a different route back, passing by a beautiful crossing, including an elephant statue.

15.15 Tired of vendors and their deals and a wish to know what what happens inside the covers of our books, we have returned to the room. The heat of the sun is entering through the window.

16.48 The sounds of the city pours in through the open windows. They spice up our reading and gives a nice link to the everyday life.

This roundabout is decorated with animals like an elephant.

Walking towards our hotel on a new route.

The vodka man and his car is back.

17.17 It is not acceptable to just lie down and read. Now we are going to almost change the activity to not do much at all.

18.31 This is also the holiday experience, to just take it easy, to exist, to talk about this and that. Sometimes, the body must receive only a small dose of impressions and events. It must not be overflowing with impressions and feelings.

19.37 Now enough is enough with the room rest. We have once again taken the stairs down and entered the dining room. This evening we will have Spaghetti Bolognese for dinner.

20.27 Today we have not got very much done. It might lead to decadence and laziness. We can't continue to live this way. Lower the pace and you stop, get stuck, stagnate. Tomorrow, more will happen. Then we will leave Arusha and head east.

Thursday 28th of July

06.41 It's early morning here in Arusha. From outside we hear a bird and a car alarm. Now the alarm silenced and the morning continues for us and all the other awake this morning.

07.42 Breakfast is good, but now we want to have a different selection and a different place. We have been in this restaurant a few too many times now. A travel group is getting ready for an excursion, a safari. We make ourselves ready for check-out and an upcoming bus trip. Most of our belongings are tucked down in our backpacks. Soon we will walk a few blocks towards the journey to the unknown.

08.20 A brisk walk brought us to the Dar Express small office and bus station. We saw a small traffic accident during our walk. In the office we asked about bus tickets to Moshi. 6000 shillings were handed over and we received a hand written note which had the numbers 8 and 9 on. At first we were hesitant but it was enough to use as a ticket. Probably it was just information about the seats we should sit on. Somehow, they know that we paid. Now both the backpacks and we are in the right places.

08.27 The bus we sit in is due for a long trip today. It continues all the way down to Tanzania's biggest city, Dar es Salaam and if you're heading there you´ll get real tickets. We, however, will only be with it for a while. We'll just go to the town of Moshi, which is located approximately eighty kilometres east of Arusha.

Peter is checking out from room 207.

Dar Express is helping us reach Moshi.

08.53 The journey has begun. Now we go through and soon out of Arusha. The bus driver is having a happy conversation with one of the passengers.

09.28 It has not gone as we had expected. The bus moves slowly, slowly, and it has taken like forever to get out of Arusha. From just after the start and until now it has mostly been road works that slowed down the traffic. Now it seems to finally be over and we can travel on the road as usual.

10.14 The traffic has thinned out. In the distance, we have seen the snow covered peak of Kilimanjaro. The mountain is largely enclosed in clouds and mist.

10.43 Today´s trip goes smoothly despite the delay due to road works. The trip has been comfortable, and we arrived to Moshi, where we unloaded the backpacks. After a very short walk we arrived at Nyota Bed and Breakfast (http://www.nyotabedandbreakfast.com) where we had booked a room. Once we figured out how we would enter the building it went even better. Our room has three beds inside and a balcony outside. Imagine if it were the other way around! Here are just a few single rooms, a kitchen and common toilets and showers.

11.19 We will eventually set out to discover Moshi town but we are waiting and resting in the room right now because we plan to eat lunch in connection with the upcoming city promenade. On the street outside, there is an option for lunch. There are some people grilling some meat and sit on plastic chairs eating, a little too simple maybe?

New room, new travel journal notes.

View from our Nyota balcony.

Simple lunch in the street.

Christer is resting after this morning´s bus trip.

12.30 Now we have looked at a few appropriate options for both coffee stop and lunch. Now we just have to find these places as well. We need to walk a bit down to the urban core in Moshi in order to achieve this.

13.05 What good is it to find nice and good places in a guide book when they don't exist in real life? We have slowly made it to the street corners and places where our selected cafes and restaurant would be but they are just not there. Well, we have in all cases seen the city centre and on the way there found the spacious nice Mimosa Restaurant and it is now lunch. The restaurant is beautifully nestled in the greenery at the Uhuru Park.

13.45 The food looked and tasted great. It was also good service, Wi-Fi and, moreover, quiet and nice. Now we shall stroll back towards the home base.

14.02 "Without coffee there is no tomorrow". That is a slogan on the menu at Aroma Coffee House. It is located on the other side of the street from the Dar Express bus stop that we arrived to in the morning. In order to secure tomorrow's existence, we have ordered coffee. A young man in a white shirt is serving us and is very "service minded".

14.42 Black, strong, and above all, delicious coffee. It was what it was at the visit with the Aroma Coffee House. Now we have returned home to our nice rooms at the Nyota B&B. Since we left we´ve got some Germans as our neighbours.

Downtown Moshi.

We were lucky and found the perfect restaurant Mimosa.

An excellent new restaurant in Moshi.

Christer is having lunch at the nice Mimosa Restaurant.

17.10 We have paid for our stay here and asked about tomorrow's breakfast, Wi-Fi code, and if the gate out to the street is locked at night. The hostess asked if we were afraid of something, and assured that there were guards. We told them that the only thing we were afraid of was to be locked out. No, enough with time inside the room. Out on the streets and, yes, there we'll see what happens next. We need to buy some stuff before the long trip tomorrow.

17.32 We shall now enjoy a fruit platter and a coffee at Kilimanjaro Coffee Lounge (http://kilicoffeelounge.webs.com). Mount Kilimanjaro itself is hiding efficiently so far, despite the proximity to the city. However, we have seen a bridal couple in a car that passed in a roundabout. Before and after they drove pick-up cars with musicians on these carriers. The Kilimanjaro Coffee Lounge is located across from the grocery store, Nakumatt, where we planned to shop later.

17.46 Another Swedish connection is a fact. A man with a southern dialect and his daughter are sitting at a table just behind us. In addition to the two Swedish occupied tables here there a few British tourists here in the restaurant.

18.09 It was fruit in large amounts in the dishes we received. It was watermelon, avocado, orange, pineapple and banana. The small meal evolved into a hefty meal. I now sit at the table while Christer is away to buy travel snacks at Nakumatt. It was the easiest way to do so, because it always tends to be a problem if you want to go into stores and shops wearing our small backpacks. In the morning a long journey is awaiting. We need beverages and something to eat.

New modern buildings in Moshi. Here are banks and other businesses.

Peter is drinking excellent coffee at Aroma Coffee House.

Truths on the menu.

Nyota Bed & Breakfast, Moshi.

18.32 The shopping went fine. It was perhaps not the expected things we wanted but it is OK, we will manage. It was worse with the nagging salesmen who gathered outside the store and questioned how and where Christer walked. According to them, he went in the wrong direction, did not know where he was going, etc. We have left the central parts, and are occasionally at home. Soon we need to plan where we will dine.

19.57 We are back at the Mimosa Restaurant to eat dinner. Despite the darkness it was easiest to go here, not too far and easy to find. Some others that are back to eat is the mosquitoes and they are plenty. On the way here we got a better view of the country's and Africa's highest mountain, Kilimanjaro. We made some attempts to photograph it.

19.52 The dinner as well as lunch is good here. It was not that easy to navigate home in the darkness of the night, Sure, the street lights were offered, but the pavement is uneven. Now we're home again and it feels great.

22.39 It is not as cool as usual outdoors. It is not good. There will be no real cool down in our rooms. Well, we do have ceiling fan but our mosquito nets will be blown away if we turn it on.

A car with newly married couple, a common sight during our trips over the years.

Fruit and coffee at Kilimanjaro Coffee Lounge.

Kilimanjaro during the last hour of daylight.