tonypaj
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Here's my brush with Out of Africa...
I moved to Kenya in 1993, stayed there for 2 years. When I arrived and was looking for a house, a real estate agent took me to Karen (a part of town in Nairobi), and showed me a beautiful place, and old house, run down swimming pool, huge garden, and according to her "250 acres where you can ride your horses", owned by the Kenyatta family. It was pretty much perfect, but I had two worries, 45 minutes from my office, out in the bush, and I was about to live alone there (of course with the servants and stuff, but alone). I told her politely no, a bit far from where I want to be. Then she went on to say that "by the way, did you know that they shot a lot of Out of Africa on this farm, Karen Blixen's real house (not that far from there) was not available, and this was as close to the real thing as possible".
It could have been just a story, of course, but somehow I think not...
I moved to Kenya in 1993, stayed there for 2 years. When I arrived and was looking for a house, a real estate agent took me to Karen (a part of town in Nairobi), and showed me a beautiful place, and old house, run down swimming pool, huge garden, and according to her "250 acres where you can ride your horses", owned by the Kenyatta family. It was pretty much perfect, but I had two worries, 45 minutes from my office, out in the bush, and I was about to live alone there (of course with the servants and stuff, but alone). I told her politely no, a bit far from where I want to be. Then she went on to say that "by the way, did you know that they shot a lot of Out of Africa on this farm, Karen Blixen's real house (not that far from there) was not available, and this was as close to the real thing as possible".
It could have been just a story, of course, but somehow I think not...