Blogs from Reading, Berkshire, England, United Kingdom, Europe - page 3

I wanted to say a quick congratulations to Matt and Erin on the birth of their daughter "Sookie Violet Williams" born at 11:37am on Father's day ... read more

Goodmorning everyone, 1 hour and 20 minutes ago my plane landed and I am finally home in Twyford getting ready to go to bed and catch up on some sleep. As I arrived at the airport in Accra I was told to go to customs so that they could check my bag, just as they had in Nigeria, my thoughts were "oh god dont open it, I had to sit on it to close it in the first place" although she opened everyone elses bags she took one look at me and said - you are good, you may go. I thanked her, although fully aware of what a good girl I am :) I headed through to the departure gate, they had placed all of the BA passengers in one line and forgotten about us ... read more

Leaving Kampala Airport was the usual chaos of Africa, Going through pointless scanners where no one really checks you at all. There were three flights all taking off at roughly the same time, Heathrow, Paris and Amsterdam and no one really knew where to go and people were just standing everyone looking confused! I thought stuff this and winded my way through the formed queue and walked up to the British Airways desk and off my bag went. We went through to Immigration. Mike went through with no problems - me on the other hand I was finally seeing actual security in Africa's Airports - They thought my passport was fake! they ran their fingers over the picture, they held it up to the light and called a supervisor who finally let me through. Of all ... read more

Hi Readers, below is my Itinerary of my trip in January and where I will be blogging from, I believe in Mwanza I will have a weekend to explore so I am looking for ideas of things to do. There are many temples and of course beaches but I cant go to Africa and not see an Animal - can I? there is a wildlife reserve called Saa Nane that I may visit however there is conflicting reviews about the welfare of the animals, Saa Nane Island, meaning "eight o'clock island", has a large variety of reptiles. Hippo, zebra and wildebeest and some caged animals are found within the wildlife sanctuary. Dar es Salaam, United Republic of Tanzania (5 days) Jan 8 - Jan 12, 2011 Mwanza, United Republic of Tanzania (6 days) Jan 12 - ... read more

Tuesday October 26th: I've just found out that on Friday I will be going with Alison to Reading in England! This is so exciting, I have never been there before and we're going to celebrate Halloween with some of Alison's friends this Saturday! I'm not sure what I am going to wear though at the party. Anyhow, I will post more photos of the Halloween party so you can see me and my new friends.... read more