Churches, matatus and shops outdoing each other with noisiest music

The expatriate is naturally drawn to ‘the great outdoors’, where he will sit for hours on end listening to the serenity of the environment: the occasional birdsong, the gentle fizz of the wind across a Whistling Acacia, the faint sipping of an ant as it drinks the dew from the morning grass. His pleasures are silence, calm and quiet.