The evening mission to find Mabinti Johnny’s was not successful. Well, actually, we did find it, but the lady herself was not there. A boy waited with us and assured us she was on her way, but we hadn’t seen anybody else and weren’t sure that anyone was taking Mabinti a message that she had customers. It later turned out she had rushed back but just missed us. After a few minutes, we decided to come back another time, and went instead to the U & Me Pub (‘Da Place to Be’), which had a picture of a black and a white person shaking hands on the brightly painted sign.
I had wanted to try Maltina – a non-alcoholic malt drink - or palm wine, which is drained directly from the tree, but they didn’t have either, so we drank Star. We asked for peanuts, too. After about 45 minutes of drinking our beer, the groundnuts were ready. This was remarkably quick, seeing as a child had to be sent to buy them, a fire was lit and allowed to come up to temperature, a pot of water heated up, and the nuts washed and finally boiled. After another beer with the juicy, sweet nuts, we dashed back up to the camp just in time for our Italian canteen supper.
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