{"id":1356,"date":"2015-09-01T12:28:00","date_gmt":"2015-09-01T12:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mywalkabout.net\/2015\/09\/01\/karen-blixen"},"modified":"2020-02-18T07:16:22","modified_gmt":"2020-02-18T14:16:22","slug":"karen-blixen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mywalkabout.net\/?p=1356","title":{"rendered":"Karen Blixen"},"content":{"rendered":"
In 1913, Karen Blixen<\/a> left her hometown in Denmark to live in what was then called “British East Africa”.<\/div>\n
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Except for leaving for a brief time to recuperate from syphilis that she caught from her cheating husband of convenience, Karen worked the land trying to grow a coffee plantation.<\/div>\n
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She did so with the help and respect of the Kikuyu tribe in what is now known as modern day Kenya.<\/div>\n
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In the Ngong hills outside the bustling city of Nairobi, one can still visit the grounds of Karen Blixen, her home, plantation, and farm equipment.<\/div>\n
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Walk around the peaceful gardens and try to imagine what it would have been like 100 years ago.<\/div>\n
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I finally watched the movie “Out of Africa<\/a>“, that is based upon Karen’s novel of the same name. To see Kenya portrayed so wonderfully in that movie made this heart ache.<\/div>\n
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It is hard to put into words, perhaps it is something only those that have been there may understand.<\/div>\n
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Karen was there for almost twenty years. She never returned.<\/div>\n
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I was there for six years, and who knows what the future may bring.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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