So far so very average!

Well so far everything has been typically British really....i.e. somehow we make it work despite nothing working as it should!

We arrived at the hotel last night to find that all of our rooms had been cancelled by booking.com the agent that we used....but after an hour of "gentle persuasion" by yours truly despite the hotel being "full" we managed to get the manager and deputy managers to give us their rooms and a couple of twin rooms. All we need to do now is sort out the fact that we have paid for all the rooms twice! Once to the hotel and once to booking.com. Without doubt booking.com's fault but hey we will leave that joy until we get back.

Dinner followed the same pattern. Ordered at 8.40 it arrived at 9.50....pretty cold and somewhat uninspiring. Apparently the hotel was full and they couldn't cope....Hilton aren't much cop frankly.

But no matter today was the first real day and things would be different. Wouldnt they?

Hmmmmmm. Well until we arrived at fog bound heathrow of course. With a 150 minute window between connecting flights at Amsterdam we used up 60 minutes at heathrow due to the fog, followed by a further 20 minutes holding in the air as no one could land at Schipol, followed by a quite incredulous 15 minute taxi once we landed. So we had 55 minutes to cross from arrival terminal D to F which we have just done. We are last in the queue but we did it.

It remains to be seen if out luggage has the same British bulldog spirit!

See you in Tanzania.

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