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We made it to Uganda! It’s amazing here, so African! Gorgeous weather, it’s 28C so not too hot. Just met a little girl called Josephine walking back from Entebbe who declared she wanted to be our friend and then was too shy to say anything else - cute.

The journey was good despite massive lack of sleep. Waking up in Glossop at 3am to go to the airport after a 1 hour nap was a definite low point. When we were waiting for our flight in Manchester I looked out of the window and it was light outside – so weird! The first flight to Amsterdam is a bit of a blur, I think I slept quite a lot! Holland looks like the land for people with OCD. All the fields are perfectly rectangular and the houses are in straight rows. It was really flat and watery. There was nice cheese at the airport. I don’t think I’ll ever bother going.

We were so excited when we got on the second flight! KLM is brilliant, you can take two 23kg bags (obv took them up on that!) and they give you so much food and it’s really nice food as well. And those hot towel things. You can watch a billion different films or this screen which tells you how high you are and how fast you’re going and exactly where you’re flying over. There were loads of Americans but fortunately they kept quite quiet. Looking out the window was incredible, I can’t believe how much world you can cover in 7 hours!

We flew over Italy and you could see mountains with snow on and then a nap later we were over the Libyan desert. The Libyan desert was incredible. It just goes on for miles and miles, SO much sand, I can’t believe there’s that much sand, where does it all come from? C-M spotted a little settlement, people live there, and God knows them and their whole life – amazing. Then we got over Sudan and the sun was getting lower and you could see the Nile river and it’s so wide. There was worship music playing on my iPod – we are so small.

This guy picked us up at the airport in a rickety landrover with no seatbelt. He was a Man U supporter(obv). The hostel is well good we have our own little house with double bed bunkbeds and lovely retro flowery curtains and a gecko which is v cute. I shared a really hot shower this morning with some kind of giant beetle which unfortunately died a slow death as I couldn’t direct the shower at it to end it’s misery. RIP. We wandered into Entebbe and saw loads of storks and an avocado tree and we ate mango. Just waiting for the hospital to pick us up and take us to Masaka – can’t wait to see a bit of the country! It’s amazing being here I feel totally blessed.

(Wedding was SO SO lovely, see facebook for photos!!)

Christine