To Blighty and Back
Hi Blogfans - I'm back!
To be honest, I haven't actually been away, just lying low!
Finally after a long stint in sweltering Libya I finally get to go home. The day I leave for the UK the Tripoli temperature is 47 degrees in the shade and we haven't really seen any rain for 3 months. We arrive back in the UK and are greeted with chilly 17 degree temperatures and 3 weeks of RAIN! After one week of it I actually found myself pining for the North African heat!
Following the usual trouble with visas, we finally find ourselves back on the BA flight to Tripoli. Unfortunately we chose the first day of the UK school holidays and soon find that half the population of UK-Libyan children want to board our plane and sit in the surrounding rows!
For the next 4 hours we try not to notice the screaming, climbing, running kids whose parents were too busy trying to read the in-flight magazine to tell little Mohamed that the back of my seat is not a giant blue football!
We finally arrived back at our Libyan flat to find it fairly intact. The cleaner had been round and done a good job. She'd also done what all locals do - left the lights on for when we got back. Unfortunately that was 3 weeks ago and most of them had given up - one in the bedroom had actually exploded! But apart from that there was no major disasters. The "generic British satellite" box took a couple of restarts but works OK now - that's the important thing!
This morning I awoke and looked at the clock - it said 6am. I tried to go back to sleep but kept waking up every few minutes. I thought this was weird but enjoyed not having to get up yet. Finally the clock got to 8 and I got up to shower. After getting ready it was time to leave, I look at the bedside clock and it's 8:40 so I'm pleased we're gonna get to work a bit early on our first day back. Then Fi looks at the kitchen clock - it says 10:30am. "Must be broke" I say. Next she looks at her phone - that says 10:30 too, so I check Sky and that agrees.
Oh bugga! We've had a power cut!
Ah well, at least we got a lie-in!
To be honest, I haven't actually been away, just lying low!
Finally after a long stint in sweltering Libya I finally get to go home. The day I leave for the UK the Tripoli temperature is 47 degrees in the shade and we haven't really seen any rain for 3 months. We arrive back in the UK and are greeted with chilly 17 degree temperatures and 3 weeks of RAIN! After one week of it I actually found myself pining for the North African heat!
Following the usual trouble with visas, we finally find ourselves back on the BA flight to Tripoli. Unfortunately we chose the first day of the UK school holidays and soon find that half the population of UK-Libyan children want to board our plane and sit in the surrounding rows!
For the next 4 hours we try not to notice the screaming, climbing, running kids whose parents were too busy trying to read the in-flight magazine to tell little Mohamed that the back of my seat is not a giant blue football!
We finally arrived back at our Libyan flat to find it fairly intact. The cleaner had been round and done a good job. She'd also done what all locals do - left the lights on for when we got back. Unfortunately that was 3 weeks ago and most of them had given up - one in the bedroom had actually exploded! But apart from that there was no major disasters. The "generic British satellite" box took a couple of restarts but works OK now - that's the important thing!
This morning I awoke and looked at the clock - it said 6am. I tried to go back to sleep but kept waking up every few minutes. I thought this was weird but enjoyed not having to get up yet. Finally the clock got to 8 and I got up to shower. After getting ready it was time to leave, I look at the bedside clock and it's 8:40 so I'm pleased we're gonna get to work a bit early on our first day back. Then Fi looks at the kitchen clock - it says 10:30am. "Must be broke" I say. Next she looks at her phone - that says 10:30 too, so I check Sky and that agrees.
Oh bugga! We've had a power cut!
Ah well, at least we got a lie-in!
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