Getting there

So my family and I decided to do something different for this winter break. Something different than the usual excessive eating and drinking in Sardinia, our Italian homeland. 
We decide to excessively eat and drink under the sun: in Zanzibar. Another beautiful island, but in Africa.

Purely for illustrative purposes (not to make anyone jealous) the picture above is a beach in Sardina, in the summer, and the picture below is one in Zanzibar, just after Christmas.

I feel like this could need a little bit of a background story to it. 
Why Zanzibar? Why now? And why mum, dad, myself and my 70 years old awesome aunty?
Well, it's somewhat straightforward actually: one of my cousins, daughter of said awesome aunty, has recently moved to Zanzibar, married a Zanzibarian and had a baby. (When I said straight forward... I meant I'm cutting the long huge story short really).

So here they are, from the left to the right: daddy Feisal, baby Hameeda, and mamma Simona. 

From the picture you can tell, apart from the extreme good looks that run in my family, you can see how small the baby is. We are talking days when that picture was taken. And she's also super cute! So anyway... we decided to go and see them.
The decisional process behind us actually going to see them pretty much went as follows; my mum (serial traveller, takes anything as an excuse to go places) goes: "I want to go meet Hameeda". To what my aunty replied: "well I want to go as well!". To which I replied: "well if you're paying I'm in too!!!".

So there we were, on our way to Zanzibar: mum Marina, dad Dino, aunty Olga and myself.

Mamma and I on our way to our plane to Dar el Salaam, Tanzania.

Entering the orderly visa application system in Tanzania.

Babbo and I on the verge of aheatstroke. 

Our lift to Zanzibar. Serious.

So, unfortunately, I didn't get any picture of awesome aunty Olga while travelling. I've only got hilarious little videos of her really tired talking a bit of nonsense, but they can't be put on here. So instead you get a supercute picture of her holding Hameeda on the night we got there. <3

And this is all you're getting... for now.

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