{"id":119,"date":"1992-11-11T18:05:22","date_gmt":"1992-11-12T01:05:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.traveller.org\/journal\/?p=119"},"modified":"2009-05-15T18:19:23","modified_gmt":"2009-05-16T01:19:23","slug":"on-the-beach-at-lake-malawi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.traveller.org\/journal\/?p=119","title":{"rendered":"On The Beach At Lake Malawi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\"> Here&#8217;s the text from the Christmas     postcards which are being mailed out: &#8220;Nov 18, 92.  Dear &#8212;&#8212;, MERRY CHRISTMAS!     We&#8217;ve made it to Malawi for the two weeks we had to kill before our safari.     This place is heaven. We&#8217;re staying in one of the few modern buildings in     a village made of thatched huts at Cape MacLear, Lake Malawi. The lake has     over 650 species of fish to snorkel after. When you get in the water for     a swim the fish come to you and surround you while you&#8217;re swimming. We eat     fresh fish and rice for dinner; mangos, eggs and coconut for breakfast &#8211;     if I didn&#8217;t have to catch the safari truck on the 20th I&#8217;d stay here. It     was a hellish bus ride getting here but well worth it. We&#8217;re getting a local     to take us in his boat (carved out of a tree) over to one of the islands     to do diving and eat fresh fish for the day. (That&#8217;ll cost $3.00). our room     opens up onto the beach and it&#8217;s got our own bathroom for $2.50 each. All     we do is lounge on the beach and swim all day. Remember, I&#8217;m south of the     equator and it&#8217;s summer down here! Have a great Christmas! We&#8217;ll be in Nairobi     on the 3rd or the 4th before we go to India to sit on more beaches.. Take     Care. All the best. Love, Brad&#8221; <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">Yesterday we sat on the beach, went swimming, sat on the beach, went swimming, sat on the beach . . . That&#8217;s how difficult the day was. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Here&#8217;s the text from the Christmas postcards which are being mailed out: &#8220;Nov 18, 92. Dear &#8212;&#8212;, MERRY CHRISTMAS! We&#8217;ve made it to Malawi for the two weeks we had to kill before our safari. This place is heaven. We&#8217;re staying in one of the few modern buildings in a village made of thatched [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-malawi","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.traveller.org\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.traveller.org\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.traveller.org\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.traveller.org\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.traveller.org\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=119"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.traveller.org\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":134,"href":"https:\/\/www.traveller.org\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions\/134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.traveller.org\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.traveller.org\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.traveller.org\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}