8-12 October: Uganda and home.

The mission in Uganda was another training course and Keith and I had quite a high workload but the participants were pretty animated which made the week much more fun, and hopefully a better learning experience. The hotel where we worked was only a short distance away from the  place where we stayed, but enough just to give us all a break in the evenings.  Although the food was OK in the Imperial Botanical Gardens K and I took to walking up the road a few hundred metres several evenings to a chinese restaurant on the same road.  The sign at the entrance was intriguing....

...........although the food was excellent and the beer was cheap we never did find out what the movies were!



Peter with a Nile Special...



The high point of each day was our beer overlooking the shores of  Lake Victoria in the hotel gardens as I mentioned. We tried several brands of local beer and they were all very cold and acceptable..



..Moonberg was another drop we tried....



............and Tusker (from Kenya) also went down well!



The gardens also provided some interesting wildlife ...

 A blue kingfisher in full song

A glossy ibis

A brown heron on a nest

A pied kingfisher

Plenty of monkeys too!


...............................and Maribou Storks everywhere.....................

We also went to Kampala, the capital, for a visit as it was only  about 40 Km away. The traffic in the city was horrendous and these poictures barely tell the tale of our  slow progress..40 minutes to do less than 1 km at one point.



But despite the chaos and the noise we did see these 3 Maribou storks nesting in a very small tree in the centre of the road!

Quite amazing.....there are three nests and three storks in this tree!

The last evening we had a bit of a party at the hotel and I was danced and sung onto the car for my trip to the airport. The flights were with Brussels Airlines and the A330 and then an A321 were pretty uneventful. The flight was early out of Entebbe and witha very quick stop in Nairobi we arrived in Brussels early ona cold, dark rainy morning. Sadly the connectionw as not greta and I had four hours to wait (and buy chocolates for the office).  Then a good flight with a nice breakfast back to Vienna arriving at lunchtime on a cool but dry day.Another mission completed. Hoppefully the last for the year.