Today is Union day, a national holiday to commemorate the union of Tanganyika and Zanzibar.
Unfortunately, the others needed to be back early so we have a 7am start. I was thrown the keys to navigate the bumps, bikes, buses and a band of mongoose.
With the early morning light creating horrible shadows across the road I manage to land ourselves in some large holes. We survived and I handed over the keys about 40km outside of Tabora.
Luckily we both had nothing to do, so enjoyed a long afternoon cycle around the town before heading out for an early dinner. Or so we hoped.
We have a flat!
In the dark and with various improvised tools we managed to change the wheel and get to dinner for 8pm, and treated ourselves to a meal each and shared a pizza. It had been a long weekend.
A fascinating insight into the church of Tanzania and some real lessons to be learnt by the UK, the element of fun, the sense of community and the pride in welcoming new vicars. However, there are some other elements that the UK seems to do better, mainly the timing. But I leave you with some remarks the Bishop made at the end of the service.
“I am sorry to our visitors from England for the length of the service, but you need to remember that you have too short services and not enough singing in church, which is why your church is not growing.”
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