Shopping in Harare

The next day we left Chirundu. It was my birthday and Dave had promised to buy me a present in Borrowdale, which is the Kings Road of Harare. The problem is the shops there wouldn’t even rival the high street in Hunstanton. The best shops are hunting or fishing shops and seeing as I had the fishing bug we went along to Master Angler. Here Dave bought me a reel as he has a spare rod we can attach it to and a pink Bass Pro beer can cooler, which is so cool!!

From Harare we went onto Marondera as we were staying with DK and Karen at his Oupa’s farm. We stayed there for a couple of days and there house is so nice and homely. DK cooked a stir fry on our first night and Karen baked me a cake for my birthday. The next night we went down to the dam on the farm where DK’s Oupa has built a lovely thatched lodge and braai area. A couple of Dave’s rugby friends came over and we had a braai.  The sunset was spectacular.

The next day we drove into Harare again, which is only an hour away from Marondera but we’d had a flat tyre that morning.  Dave pulled a 4 inch bit of lead out of the tyre.  We couldn’t get the tyre fixed in Marondera as they had no power so we risked it and trickled onto Harare.  With the spare attached we could only drive a max of 80km/hr so it took us two hours to get there.  Luckily Harare had power so we dropped off the car and went into Borrowdale.  We stopped for lunch at Delicious, which is the in place to eat in Borrowdale as you can go on the internet there.  We then went into Feredays, which is a hunting, camping and fishing shop and has been around since the days of Frederick Courteney Selous. Because of which it is extremely expensive. Dave bought some gaters to go over his boots a leather bullet holder for his belt, which all came to 85USD.