Sonia Ryrie outside the picture perfect farmhouse as it is today. Picture: By a Correspondent
Winding away from a well-traveled Nairobi avenue along an unpromising potholed cattle-track called Farmhouse Road, one travels uphill to well… the farmhouse.
A perfect stage-set for “imperial nostalgia” theatre, it is jokingly described by the indefatigable Sonia Ryrie, its current owner, as colonial baronial. Over the years it has been used in gripping true-life as well as scripted dramas on upper-class life in the city. The celebrity house as target of Hollywood blockbusters saw its last significant role in The Constant Gardener. One can easily see why.
