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There is myth, folklore, legend, fairy tales, and fables, and then there is reality. You are bound to experience these in your travels, or you will have heard about them in your history lessons.
I was in Taita Taveta on an assignment when my host Joyce Mbataru said would take me deep into the interior of this historically famous county - close to the border with Tanzania.
This is home to the famous Grogan Castle built in the 1930s by Ewart Grogan for "the love of his life", and how he too, trekked from Cape Town in South Africa to Cairo, Egypt to prove to his father-in-law that he was worthy of the hand of his daughter.
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