Sunday, August 14, 2005

Sunday afernoon, just had lunch of matoke (steamed banana), rice, peanut sauce, chicken etc. Nice!

Trip here was full of pleasant surprises; the plane left on time, they told me I could have another 8kg on the way home (stuffed gorilla?) and gave me a free hotel voucher seeing the stopover in Dubai was so long. Dubai was hot; lots of sand but I only saw the sea after we took off. Got to Entebbe and was surprised to see my suitcase for the first time since Glasgow... then through the exit and, praise the Lord, there was George waiting for me. We're now at Namirembe guest house http://namirembe-guesthouse.com/ with panoramic views through the trees over Kampala. the cathedral is here. I imagine 100 years ago it was a small village, though they have a picture of a huge grass roofed hall that held 4000 people... it blew down after 2 years.

English service was good... big cathedral with the smell of old buildings, and full of people... very few mzungus... I guess they worship at smaller, livelier places. Afterwards, Fred, George's driver, took me a quick tour around Kampala as we're leaving town first thing tomorrow and I won't get another chance.

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