The time in
Frankfurt passed quickly. Got a bottle of duty free whisky, checked my email,
ordered a toasted ham and cheese sandwich and a coffee in German. Good news:
they understood and spoke back to me in German. Bad news: Worst ham and cheese
toastie ever!
Shortly
after take-off the stewardess asked the guy sitting beside me if he wanted to
move so we could both have an empty seat next to us. Oh joy! A window seat,
with the adjacent aisle seat empty! Managed to doze on and off in various
almost-comfortable positions.
The clouds
cleared as we left the Mediterranean and started to fly over the Egyptian
desert. Started to see circles of crop irrigation, then the Nile came into
view. We were somewhere like Abu Simbel, where the Nile widens out into a huge
lake. Amazing! I’m not really fond of flying, but I love seeing the earth from
a plane.
About an hour
age we began our descent into Khartoum. First mud houses and mud roads appear,
then a big and apparently thriving city with apartment buildings, mosques, and
some quite fancy architecture, with concrete moulded into sinuous curves. Lot
of unusual looking planes around the airport, the one next to us is labelled
“Marsland” which sounds a bit like science fiction. The sun is beginning to set
and we have to stay on board for refuelling.
Two hours
till Addis….
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