Well after a late night and a long queue in Heathrow I boarded my first
flight to Istanbul. It was a pretty big plane, and the food was nice (Turkish
Airways). Short and sweet, I was in Istanbul after just 4 hours, waiting for my
next connection, which with more queuing at the transit security desk gave us
like 30 mins before the next one. This was a smaller, one aisled plane which I
found strange for a 7 hour journey. Guess it was primarily to do with the amount
of people that needed to travel on that route. I had somehow luckily managed to
book myself in to sit in a ‘lots of legroom’ seat, which was one of three in
front of an attachable baby crib. This was eventually used by cute American
baby, giving me much enjoyment and ways to brood during my flight!
So then Dar es Salaam happened. The airport seemed really unsafe to be in,
and although the odd guard was around it wouldn’t be difficult to run off with
someone’s luggage (which is potentially what happened to my small rucksack) NOT
HAPPY. Want my rucksack please.
Oh well. Then I had a long LONG wait in Dar es Salaam airport, afraid to go
to sleep because I was on my own, and very very tired!
Small plane happened – probably sat about 50 people? Tiniest plane I had
ever been on, and I was crossing water! How do these little things stay up in
the breeze? Precision Airways flight was fun though – up and down within 20
mins, no time to undo your seatbelts!
Collected my remaining bag – its waterproof ‘jacket’ that I had popped over the top was ripped... brilliant. Bad things happen in threes right? What’s next?
Collected my remaining bag – its waterproof ‘jacket’ that I had popped over the top was ripped... brilliant. Bad things happen in threes right? What’s next?
Not going to lie, I’m quite a confident lone traveller but I am starting to
wonder if this was a bad idea :( Counting down the days until I meet my awesome group and head to Lindi, at least I wont be on my own in the evenings!
Feelings of good will welcome to my email orangenie@hotmail.com or my facebook.
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