Yesterday finished packing having flung
everything at the suitcase for weeks.
Got to Heathrow in good time, but found it all a bit of a rabbit warren
– now a ‘smart rat’ negotiating all the halls, levels, & gates.
The flight was good and sat next to a very
nice man who was fourth generation Ugandan Asian, who said he had to flee in
1972 but the government later on asked them if they wanted to come back and
reclaim their properties – so he did in 1992, although a lot of his family
still live in Canada in the main. He is
a managing director for an electrical company, selling goods mainly. He told me that the Ugandans were very
friendly more so he thought than the Kenyans – so that’s a relief after my
Nigerian trip which seems a much more volatile society.
It sounded like a lot of the food was similar
to Kenya, except perhaps grasshoppers and bats.
When we arrived at Entebbe we passed the Ebola
check instigated by the Ugandan authorities, who were all masked up with rubber
gloves and we had our hands sprayed before reaching this desk! All looked a bit
scary! We also had the temperature gun pointed at our foreheads which looked
like a cattle stunner! Then at passport control we had to put our finger prints
on to a scanner and our eyes up to this ball camera. The official reckoned those with Ebola would
not reach that far when l commented on not sterilising the finger print
machine!
Suitcase took ages but luckily the ‘Boma’
Hotel carrier waited for us all. The
surgeon and his dentist wife brought three trolley loads of luggage so the van
was struggling! The Boma Hotel is lovely
but will see more of it in the morning.
Emmanuel is coming at 6am to pick me up also
getting up at 5am tomorrow – it’s now 1.40 am!
Sleep now.
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