Visit to an ateljee

Saturday morning was exciting when me and Sarah did our first combi trip alone. We first took a combi to the city where we changed combi. The city is always quite crowded and you never see any other white people there. So normally we get lot of attention there. We took then other combi to Arundel village where we had sooo good breakfast! First cafe latte since Finland! Ah I missed that! We also enjoyed pancakes. What a perfect start into the dayJ Then Larry, a finnish guy who has lived in Harare already many many years, came to pick us up to Patrick Mavro’s ateljee.

As a welcome we immediately met a lovely poison boomslang snake there. It had been having breakfast in their tree where the people caught it then. This snake had a little bird in its stomache which we also saw.. That wasn’t so lovely! Anyway the house was amazing!! I have never seen as beautiful view from a terrace. The house was up in the hill with a beautiful open view to the nature. We got a warm welcome with delicious breakfast before visiting the ateljee. We saw how they do the silver jewelleries from the planning to the final product. All the products were so pretty! Was so wonderful to meet him and see the ateljee.

After we had a quick visit also to the biggest shopping center in Harare. Was a bit different that what I’m used to because the whole shopping area was open and not closed like in Europe. I didn’t even see any same stores that we have in Finland so they haven’t reached this part of the world yet. I have also heard that there is no McDonald’s here. That’s funny!!

We had again a chance to enjoy the Dzikwa Trust cultural group’s show in the afternoon. Wonderful as always! Other wise we had relaxing  weekend at home.