charlesfred

Here we are in Hargeisa! Finally, after 43 years away. It was a sleepless night, like it was going to be Christmas Day, an early rise and then a long wait at the airport (on the way passing a few open topped lorries full of soldiers with machine guns), as the flight was delayed for three hours and when it arrived it was a very bumpy flight...... but at 15.20 we touched down. The countryside looked a bit flatter than I expected, but just as dry and as we flew over we could see little flocks of white sheep and goats and the odd camel. We were the only plane at the airport, which was originally opened by the Duke of Gloucester in 1958 and has been renamed the Mohammed Egal airport after the first President ... read more