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Article: Kingfish steaks and Swahili cuisine
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- August 3, 1996
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The words "all inclusive" do not usually feature in my travel
vocabulary, conjuring up, as they do, images of stodgy
holidaymakers, Stalinesque meal schedules and endless rounds of
steak and chips.
I succumbed to two such weeks in Mombasa because watersports
were included. I could overlook the food, I rationalised, when
such expensive activities as diving and windsurfing were included.
After two weeks of Kingfish steaks and traditional Swahili cuisine
- all with unlimited alcohol - it was just as well the watersports
were on offer, or I might have needed a second seat on the flight
home.
All-inclusive holidays at the Shelly Beach hotel, just south of
Mombasa on the Kenyan coast, began this ...