Finally heading towards Nairobi

Our British Air Flight 440 from London to Amsterdam also provided us with some drama. After sorting out our options with British Air, which included a 10 GBP (British pound) food voucher good anywhere at Heathrow, we went in search of lunch. Nothing was less than 15 GBP anywhere. We settled on a restaurant called Giraffe and ate before we stationed ourselves in chairs near a big flight display.  Over the years, I have gotten used to the drama of keeping an eye on the estimated departure time as well as the Heathrow habit of assigning gates at the last possible minute. I wrote the previous blog post during this wait and kept nodding off mid-sentence! I think they play these games with gate assignments to combat bad guys. We eventually got a gate and had to quickly make our way there, only to find the plane had been late in arriving and was still being cleaned well after the takeoff time. Luckily, Amsterdam is a short hop, but we did cross over a timeline and being an hour later than London time meant we had barely an hour layover. That was cutting it too close for me.

I am writing this at 39000 feet over north Africa,  having just finished a good chicken dinner on Kenyan Air. Our start was a little late, but we are on track to land around 6 am Nairobi time.  It's 12:30 am now, so if I can get some sleep between now and touchdown,  it will be a good day out in the countryside tomorrow  (Friday). Stay tuned, more adventures as I am able!