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Monthly Archives: November 2016

Airplanes – Leg Three

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…

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Posted on November 30, 2016 by Alan Mills. Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment

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.  …

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Posted on November 29, 2016 by Alan Mills. Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment

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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Posted on November 28, 2016 by Alan Mills. Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment

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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Posted on November 27, 2016 by Alan Mills. Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment

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 …

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Posted on November 26, 2016 by Alan Mills. Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment

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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Posted on November 25, 2016 by Alan Mills. Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment

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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Posted on November 24, 2016 by Alan Mills. Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment

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…

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Posted on November 23, 2016 by Alan Mills. Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment

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 …

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Posted on November 22, 2016 by Alan Mills. Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment

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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Posted on November 21, 2016 by Alan Mills. Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment

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