“Ocean Basket Gaborone“, located at Shop 45A in the Airport Junction Shopping Centre, offers a delightful seafood dining experience in the heart of Gaborone. This Mediterranean-inspired restaurant is renowned for its generous portions of freshly prepared seafood, including fish, prawns, calamari, and mussels, all served with their signature creamy lemon sauce. The menu also features sushi rolls, grilled platters, and vegetarian options, catering to a wide range of tastes.
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The restaurant’s ambiance is relaxed and family-friendly, designed to evoke the warmth and hospitality of Mediterranean dining. Guests are welcomed with complimentary homemade bread rolls and a trio of dipping sauces—tartare, garlic, and chili—enhancing the communal dining experience. The interior is thoughtfully decorated with maritime-themed elements, creating a cozy and inviting atmosphere.
Operating daily from 11:00 AM to 10:00 PM, “Ocean Basket Gaborone” is a popular spot for both locals and visitors seeking quality seafood in a comfortable setting.
Whether you’re planning a casual meal with friends or a special family gathering, this restaurant promises a memorable dining experience.
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22. Books by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
It was great fun reading these books last year. A big fan of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie‘s, I had watched her TEDTalks, listened to interviews she’d given, read articles she’d written, but never read any of her books.
Find out what I thought of these books when I finally did in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Half of a Yellow Sun Summary & Americanah) (clue: I was pulling all-nighters just because I couldn’t put the books down—the books were really good!).
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21. – 20. Food from “Ocean Basket Gaborone & More
These cold raw oysters served on ice at the Ocean Basket in Gaborone, Botswana were a sheer delight. I hadn’t had raw oysters in over 26 years and they took me right back to happy childhood memories.
With a squeeze of lemon and a quick slurp, they burst in my mouth with the taste of the sea.
Glorious! (To which the person I was having lunch with asked: why would anyone ever want anything to taste like the sea?)
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The Lucia celebration in Dar es Salaam was not only about children singing and light processions. We got to sample typical Swedish Christmas fare too.
This delicious potato gratin made of potatoes, anchovies, and cream—you couldn’t tell there were any anchovies in it—is known as Jansson’s Temptation, or Janssons Frestelse (in Swedish).
It is said to have been named after Pelle Janzon, a food loving Swedish opera singer of the early 1900s.
Jansson’s Temptation is a classic Swedish dish traditionally served before guests leave to ensure that during their cold journey home they have something warm inside them.
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19. – 16. Shots Taken in Tanzania
Sunrise as seen from Saadani Park Hotel located just outside Saadani National Park, Tanzania
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I love the chalkboard walls of the bathroom at Vino Wine Bar in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Beyond the pleasure of writing deep wine-inspired truths is finding the deep wine-inspired wisdom left behind by your friends. Good one, @ngasuma!
Clear skies, Saadani National Park, Tanzania
The Old Fathers’ House at the Holy Ghost Mission in Bagamoyo, Tanzania was built around 1872 and was under renovation when this picture was taken. The Holy Ghost Mission in Bagamoyo was started by the Catholic Holy Ghost Fathers. The church they built in 1872 is reportedly the oldest church on mainland East Africa. Today, the mission houses an awesome museum documenting history from the 19th/20th-century Swahili coast and East Africa as a whole. Each time I visit (and I have been many times), I learn something new.
This building was built in the local style of the time with mangrove wood floors and roof, and coral stone walls of a precolonial style of architecture. It has open arches on its periphery and has no resemblance to the German colonial architecture so common elsewhere in Tanzania.
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