The Australians

In the village of Kasanga I met three Austrians - a father and his two sons. They had arrived at this place with the same intention as me, to board the MV Liemba and take it two days up to Kigoma. We would end up travelling together for the next week. They were great company and easy to travel with. I would have left them after the first day if they were anything like one of the tour groups we ran into a few days later. They didn't know how to speak Swahili since they had only been in the country for two weeks so I would do all of the talking in situations where English wasn't possible. The conversation usually began like this: "Where are those 3 white people from?" -"Austria." "Ohhhh, Australia." -"No, Austria - it's in Europe." "Ohhhh, Australia is in Europe." -"No, Austria is near Germany." "I would like to visit Australia one day."