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17 … back to England.
Breakfast
after an interesting night;
my bed was against
the wall, the other
side of which was
the next door rooms
loo … I heard every
pee during the night
from whoever.
Breakfast
… I had a substantial
one with omelette and
toast and cereal and
juice and toast and
tea … and I noticed
the Swedish ladies were
passing round a big
pot of pills … presumably their
anti-malarials. They drink
coffee out of soup
bowls … interesting.
Peterson
took me to JKI
airport, and I wandered
around the duty frees
for something to do for
a couple of hours. Had iced
coffee and my soluble
aspirin. Does it
do any good, I
wonder ?
Had a look in
the book stalls and
decided that a few
I fancied were priced
in dollars and my
mental arithmetic made them very
expensive so I noted
the titles and authors
and will look on
Amazon.
Flight
on time; I'm sitting
next to a youth
who sleeps all the
time; he awoke for
lunch (it was awful greasy food)
and is asleep beside
me again.
Have
I said that I've
at last observed a
use for the Kindle
? People like
NC who live in
Eldoret, and the fathers
at Mill Hill, can't
get books via Amazon
like I do (parcels
never arrive), BUT … they
can download them from
the internet onto their
e-readers. Better than
no books at all. When we
lived here I used
to get book society
books sent out, but
one can't do that
now. I've still
got some of the
Folio Society and other
books I bought in
the 60's and 70's
!
It looks like the
flight will be on
time or even a
bit early.
I have the skymap
on, and we are
over southern Egypt as
I type this. I wonder if
Jan and the others
are SkyRadaring me ?! It gives our
altitude and distances and
right now we are
just north of Abu
Simbel, having crossed the
Nile, and have 2613
miles to go. We are due
to land in 6 and
a half hours. 1718 miles from
Nairobi, speed 504 mph
and altitude 36000 feet
and outside temp -56
F. Isn't technology
wonderful … even me using
a laptop up here
in the sky …
I watched the spoof on James Bond film
with Rowan Atkinson, and a film about dinosaurs, and an episode of some not
very funny comedy about a supermarket … it passed the time.
Later … we reached the sky over London
half an hour early … then circled Bromley in Kent … twice, and then central
London … once, and finally got into Heathrow at the scheduled time, so weren't
early at all. I texted daughter that I
had arrived, and got several texts from friends who had been radar tracking my
flight ! Daughter and her husband were
there to meet me and drive me home.
Good to be back, even if it is B. cold
!
I'll have to sort lots of pictures to
put up next ….
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