Antananarivo – Day 1/2

JUNE 2 – Antananarivo Meet our guide and transfer to the hotel for needed rest after the long flight. Overnight at Relais Des Plateaux.

What I am doing is putting in place holders which will show up everyday that I am unable to get on line and edit them. Means I am probably alive, well, and, in the case of today – recovering from the flight (13.5 + 11 hours time + 7 hour wait + (?9-13more?).

Ok. You have benn informed. Any day you see just a paragraph listing the proposed activities you will immedIately know my lack of WiFi access.

Boarding began around 0050 for our flight which meant dinner served around 0300 and breakfast about 0900. As it turned out, we had a stop in Mauritainia where a large number of people deplaned and I don’t think anyone boarded. Thru passengers were requested to stay on the plane.

 


The above are from the window on take off. We arrived in Madagascar at 1420

There was a line for Visas, to clear immigration, to grt through customs (everthing gets xrayd) pick up. Hotel. Crash.

About Holly

fiber person - knitter, spinner, weaver who spent 33 years being a military officer to fund the above. And home. And family. Sewing and quilting projects are also in the stash. After living again in Heidelberg after retiring (finally) from the U.S. Army May 2011, we moved to the US ~ Dec 2015. Something about being over 65 and access to health care. It also might have had to do with finding a buyer for our house. Allegedly this will provide me a home base in the same country as our four adult children, all of whom I adore, so that I can drive them totally insane. Considerations of time to knit down the stash…(right, and if you believe that…) and spin and .... There is now actually enough time to do a bit of consulting, editing. Even more amazing - we have only one household again. As long as everyone understands that I still, 40 years into our marriage, don't do kitchens or bathrooms. For that matter, not being a golden retriever, I don't do slippers or newspapers either. I don’t miss either the military or full-time clinical practice. Limiting my public health/travel med/consulting and lecturing to “when I feel like it” has let me happily spend my pension cruising, stash enhancing (oops), arguing with the DH about where we are going to travel next and book buying. Life is good!
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