Skip this if you want to read about Rwanda…

Nairobi airport - now there was an experience! We spent the night in the methodist guest house which was great… and even had a swimming pool (had we not arrived at 9pm and left at 7.15am the next morning we may have used it!) Fred the taxi driver picked us up in the morning and we had been told we needed to be at the airport an hour before we flew. So, we left two hours to be safe. Our flight left at 9.45, the gates closed at 9.15 and at 9.07 we were still trying to get through passport control!! After queuing up for hours, we eventually got taken to the front of the queue because our flight was announced, and then at the last hurdle we were told we had to fill in a blue form…and had to go and fetch one…ending up at the back of another queue! We dashed up an escalator and along to gate 4 making it by 9.13 with TWO minutes to spare…the people we were meeting were just going through having given up on us! Anyway, we were lead down some steps onto the tarmac…where there was a plane which we headed towards, thankfully checking with someone on the way that it was going to Kigali…only to find out that it was in fact going to Zanzibar…and that our plane was a short hike past two other planes over the other side of the runway! Well, it was a far cry from Heathrow…pick a plane any plane! And when we got to the plane all our luggage was on the tarmac by the side of it, and we had to pick out our backpacks and put them onto a trolley to be loaded! So it was our responsibility if anything went wrong - perhaps a scheme Heathrow should consider putting into operation… The safety instructions on the plane were also hilarious - there was a whole list of things we might be worried about, ranging from the wings shaking, to strange noises from beneath our feet, to the sound of the engines being cut and a whole list of explanations about why we didn't, in fact, need to worry!