I have arrived safely! The journey was long (21 hours), but I managed to get the coach, plane, meet Patrick (the very nice guy who drove me from the airport to the port), get a boat, and then taxi to the cathedral. The journey was mostly straightforward, although my flight was delayed by 100 mins (although ended up only 40 mins late) and I was seasick three times on the two hour boat journey, not fun when you are already dehydrated by the hot weather. In addition to this there are the dangers of arriving in a foreign country, eg. people trying to rip you off, the first taxi driver I met on Zanzibar charged double the proper rate, fortunately the guy at the tourist office warned me, and I used another. As mentioned above, it
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