Uganda

After an early breakfast and a short flight to Nairobi we had a four hour wait for our flight on to Entebbe.

Nairobi airport was a dream come true with duty free chocolate everywhere. I hadn’t had chocolate in over three weeks so was very proud when I limited myself to a bag of Daims and a bag of Dairy milk. I even avoided the buy two get third free on bags of Dairy Milks – I’m regretting that a little now.

We whiled the time away between flights in a Chinese food and chocolate haze and were soon on our flight to Uganda.

Entebbe Airport was not quite as enticing as Nairobi but as our driver was ready and waiting for us this wasn’t a problem. We drove from Entebbe to Kampala and arrived at our guest house at about 7.30pm.

After a full day of travel we were both excited to arrive, have a meal and a shower and have an early night ready for our first day with the Xavier project the next day.

The driver dropped us off and we were met by two young men who helped us in with our bags and showed us to our separate rooms. We explained that we would like to share but were told this wouldn’t be possible until the next day so settled in. Rob wanted to take a shower straight away but discovered there was no hot water. This was the beginning of our having to get used to a run of cold showers – I’m sure it’s character building.🤔

The building was massive with lots of corridors and rooms around a central staircase. We set out to find out if we could get some food and eventually found a young girl in a prefab by the gate who took us to ‘sister’. We realised that we were staying in what had been a convent and was still run by nuns.

Sister was lovely but advised us not to leave the guest house after dark, she kindly arranged food for us and by about 8.30 we were fed, cold showered and tucked up in our separate beds.😴

We spent Friday in Kampala, exploring a little, meeting some lovely people from the Xavier project and finding out a little more about their work. Ch

Children in art workshop in Kampala

In the evening we went out to an amazing restaurant where a band were playing live music. The band practice on the same site as the Xavier project offices and unwittingly provide music for the children who access the project to dance to during their breaks. Their music plus an excellent steak and lovely company ensured a really good evening culminating in us all hitting the dance floor and our latest night since reaching Africa.

On the Saturday around midday we set off on the next leg of our journey right across Uganda to the west and the Rwamwanja Refugee Settlement.