Some planes landed. Other planes took off. Some were surprisingly large. It was now approaching noon. Apart from two chocolate éclair sweets, I had eaten nothing. I didn’t like the look of anyt…
Source: Airplanes – Leg Three
Monthly Archives: November 2016
Airplanes – In the Departure Lounge
I finally asked the UNHCR staff where the entrance was. She pointed at an unmarked door where everyone seemed to be going in and out. I thanked her and barged my way forward through the throng. …
Airplanes – Processed in Mwanza
This was where the fun really started, and how Africa can really hit you. One minute you are remote, you have the whole world beneath you and it is treating you to sights beyond your wildest dream…
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Airplanes – Kibondo and Leg Two
Despite this being a tiny flight, we were told in his best hostess manner that for those passengers in transit we shall be on the ground for twenty minutes and please do not leave the plane. So wh…
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Airplanes – Looking for the strip
The GPS was now reading less than five minutes to go. The pilot had already started to lower the craft out of the sky. I put my hand to my forehead to shelter my eyes from the sun and peered out …
Airplanes – Leg One
He handed me a small Tupperware box with several Cadbury Eclair sweets inside. I passed them back into the cabin and everyone took one. “Breakfast” said the pilot. He looked around the aircraft o…
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Airplanes – A very important job
I said goodbye to the driver, who had been a good ally over the last few days, and wandered as nonchalantly as I could manage around the nose of the plane. I couldn’t suppress the wide eyed grin c…
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Airplanes- Weighing up the passengers
The pilot walked immediately off, and everyone took that as their cue to offload the bags and march behind him up to the plane on the hard. The pilot went straight into the business of preparing t…
Airplanes – Waking up the Airport
We arrived first and when the noise of the engine stopped the deathly quiet was disturbing. Then it was immensely pleasurable as I remembered a sequence of beautiful mornings in Zimbabwe several …
Airplanes – Change of plan
Unfortunately there was one part of the equation that had been omitted; the efficiency of Air Tanzania. I was disturbed to find out when I reached Bujumbura in Burundi that my Air Tanzania flight …
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String Knife and Paper 