Anyone been there?

Yes, AD, I had dinner there several times while living in Nairobi. But, this was 15 years ago. Nice enough. Believe you can stay if you are a member of a club with reciprocal privileges.

Regards, Tim

I went as the friend of a guest of a member. Needless to stay.....nice digs.

Anyone been to JA Hunters old place?

So you need a friend that is a member or member of a club ? If any have advise how a I can get a membership ?: Would like to go there and they seem not to reply to emails.

Thanks

I strongly suspect that it is one of those situations in which one must simply be enough of an insider to be asked or know a member well enough to politely inquire about sponsorship. If you don't live in Nairobi, I also strongly suspect that your best bet is becoming a member of a reciprocal club closer to home. It seems that the one exception to the above is if one happens to be an officer in the British military in which case, when visiting Nairobi, one is granted a temporary membership.

I am having trouble finding a list of reciprical clubs, although Google lends me to believe heavily UK-skewed. Not sure Anton if there could be one in Sweden..

Looks like The royal bachelors club in Gothenburg and the sallskapet in Stockholm are reciprocal with The Carlton Club in the UK which is reciprocal with Muthaiga. Not too much of a leap to think they may be direct reciprocals with muthaiga.

Good luck !

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Originally posted by BaxterB:
Anyone been to JA Hunters old place?

Have enjoyed some TUSKER beer with pleasant company there some years ago.

Very nice Oz! So much safari history around Nairobi...neat!

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Muthaiga

Wow! This place has been around a long time.

It was mentioned in Hemingway's "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber."

Whilst dining there, I did look in the billiard room to gaze on the table that Lord Erol?? put to good use having it off with what's her name back in the days of "White Mischief."

Storied period that produced all those characters including author Beryl Markham; Bror von Blixen; the remittance man who crashed his airplane, D. Finch Hatton; and his Scandinavian girlfriend, Karen-pen-name-Izak Dinesen (married to Bror).

Did not much like Kenya compared with Southern Africa. The Brits in Nairobi informed me that, after the War, the officers emigrated to East Africa and the other ranks to Southern Africa....

Been to Ms. Dinesen's place in the area named after her, Karen, on the edge of the Nairobi Safari Park. Not been to JA Hunter's place if it still exists, but agree that he wrote some very fine hunting prose.

Regards

Lady Diana Broughton, downloaded that movie yesterday. Damn I need to go to Africa soon.


If I remember correct Karen is the ONLY woman that have had a drink in that bar, ever.

They used Finch Hatton's house out on the coast in that movie White Mischief. Another place to visit!