So the day of travelling home had arrived and as it was a day of travelling there’s not a whole lot to write about. Me and Jamie had slept in a tent with proper beds in it last night which was really nice and surprisingly warm. We got up around 8.30 and had breakfast in the hostel before doing a final pack, loading our suitcases into 2 taxi’s and heading for Lusaka International Airport. When we got out of the taxi’s there were 2 guys there who unloaded our bags and put them on trolleys and started wheeling them towards check in. Once we checked in we tipped them with what little money we had left. Lusaka airport is fairly small and has feck all in it. The waiting area was small but had lots of souvenir shops and had there been an ATM to get some dollars (they wouldn’t accept their own currency). I spent the last $10 I had and we waited for our flight. Once our flight was called we were brought through to a long galvanise shed with glass doors at the end onto the runway. The security at the door seemed so lax. It consisted of a chain with a padlock around the door handles that each person coming through didn’t even unlock to open. Finally it was time to board the flight (I don’t know why I’m so impatient to get on flights cause I can’t wait to get off once I’m on). The plane was a Kenyan Airlines flight to Nairobi and it was much bigger than our flight from Nairobi 7 weeks ago (I can’t believe it been that long). Each seat had their own TV screens. The flight was fairly empty but there were lots of Makua’s and Muslims in full gear. The flight took 2 hrs 15 minutes and during it we were served a half decent chicken meal, I asked for a beer with it and was given 3 cans of “Trunker” a Kenyan beer named after the elephant that killed the company’s founder. I decided to watch a film called Maiden Heist (the only film I thought was short enough to watch). About half way through the flight a message appeared on screen saying the entertainment system would end in 20 minutes which it did ¾ of the way through the film. The film wasn’t great anyway but when a film is called Maiden Heist and you don’t get to see the heist bit cause your TV stops working its really annoying. Everyone’s system stopped at the same time. Most of the TV screens didn’t work at all and as the flight was half empty we all had to keep moving to find a TV that worked. Finally we approached Nairobi and we could see Mount Kilimanjaro sticking out above the clouds. The approach had been quite bumpy due to the cloud cover but the heat in airport was stifling. We had 6 hours to pass so we went searching for the Economy lounge shown on the map Dan had ripped from the in-flight magazine. We found it but were told our tickets didn’t qualify us for the economy lounge so we went back to the long corridor full of duty free and found a cafe. Shortly after arriving there was a power cut in the airport (quite strange) and all the lighting became dim and lots of the shops closed. To pass the time I started a new game of Championship Manager. Finally at 10.30pm we boarded our KLM flight to Amsterdam. This flight was to last 7 and a half hours overnight and as such there’s not much to say about it. This time the food wasn’t great and I slept most of the flight after watching “Limitless”. Finally at 5.45 am we arrived back in Europe which is where I now sit writing this. Its now 8 am and it’s time to go board the last flight to Dublin. Almost there goodday.
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