36 hours, door to door...
... from my Aberdeenshire home to my new Haitian
home…
I
left my lovely Steading at 11.30 am on Saturday morning for my flight from Dyce
to Heathrow. Changed at Heathrow for JFK. Overnighter at JFK, then JFK to Port
au Prince (PAP). Arrived at PAP, got
collected and roughly according to plan. There had been no delays at all at any
point along the chain…but still, it had taken me over 36 hours to get here!
I
arrived, dusty, sleepy, tired, thirsty and hungry… The only casualty so far,
seems to have been my toiletries bag and my “liquid” bag, they must have got
left behind at an airport security point, but which one?
Met
up with Janet who showed me to my dorm, made sure I got fed and watered, had a
shower and off to bed at 7pm, local time. It was a bit of a challenge to put up
my cool mosquito net but managed it!
Had
a good sleep and got woken up by … wait for this, sounds really stupid… the click
noise made by the fan in the dorm as it got automatically switched off at 4 am
(local time). Tossed and turned for a few minutes, then got up and started
working, by torch light, to plan my day.
And
call this a holiday? Alright, I rather have it this way!
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