Hello there! Welcome to the Pongwe weblog. I;m and I'm lucky enough to be staying in Zanzibar for a few months to do some travel writing and generally take a bit of a career break. Read more about me and the Pongwe blog on my. I;ve been having a lot of fun with a couple of Italian girls who arrived at the resort this week, Valeria and Francesca. It;s wonderful to have some girlie company after meeting so many honeymooners. The girls are reporters and work for RAI (Italy;s BBC) in Rome so we;ve been swapping stories on the perils and pleasures of working in television. They managed to persuade me to do something I have been avoiding all these months due to my dislike of;group activities;; to come with them on and I couldn;t resist their charms. Hotel management joked with me they would hav...