Viva Republica

This is Julie and me relaxing at Republica restaurant at the end of the first of our three workshops.

We had actually raced in to the centre at the end of the day to pay for our trip to the Volcanoes National Park and the Nyungwe National Park, in the northwest and southwest of Rwanda respectively, which we're doing from 3 to 7 October, after the workshops are finished. It was largely a wasted trip since when we arrived the credit card machine wasn't working, and the person who knew how to work it had gone home anyway. But at least we were able to find out a bit more about the logistics of the trip. However we'll have to find time to go in during the following week during business hours (8am to 5pm) which is going to be difficult since we're at work from 7.30am to 5pm except for Friday when we get away at 4pm. There doesn't appear to be any way to pay except by going in in person, but I'm sure we'll work something out.

Image courtesy of Trip Advisor www.tripadvisor.com

Anyway we took the opportunity to have an early dinner at Republica, which turned out to be a good move as the location is fantastic and our meal was really good and the staff wonderful. Julie had liboka fish (cooked in banana leaf) and I had goat stew which was delicious.

I've just read a review on Tripadvisor and now I'm worried - every review was enthusiastic except one which had the headline 'A Kigali staple - shame about the prostitutes' and went on to say that everything was good, but one should "...Avoid sitting at the bar though... unless you want to be pestered by aggressive sex workers for the entire evening".  I saw no sign of any sex workers but I guess now we'll have to go back ...