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But let s back up a day. I last wrote you Saturday morning from Johannesburg, from which I was preparing to depart after a week in South Africa and three weeks total in Africa teaching visual journalism.
I had a few files I wanted to send out before I left, but it took me longer than I had planned to send them out. Smack in the middle vacation packages to italy of all that, my internet service expired. So to hell with it; I d have to deal with it later.
And then there was a small hassle checking out of the hotel. And then there was a small hassle turning in my rental car. And then there was a small hassle checking my one bag at the airport. There was even a hassle going through passport control: The guy there stamped the wrong boarding pass. Sure glad I spotted the error or I might not have been allowed to board my plane.
The good news was that the folks at Kenya Airways checked vacation packages to italy my bag all the way through to Norfolk. I had been told that I would be compelled to go though passport control in Nairobi and pay the standard fee for an entry fee just to retrieve my bag and recheck it. That turned out not to be the case.
I had a lengthy vacation packages to italy layover in Nairobi. I had dinner and two beers and was on my MacBook Pro, building a graphics template when a waiter came over and informed me they needed that table. I d have to leave.
I sat there kind of stunned for a moment. As I pointed out to the waiter, roughly half of the people in the restaurant had been there longer than I had. I m not quite sure why I was singled out. But he just stared at me, apologetically.
And my computer briefcase upper right is fine, of course. But as I went to board the huge KLM jet from Nairobi to Amsterdam, a little Kenyan airport official stepped forward vacation packages to italy to inform me that my carry-on bag was too large to carry on.
Again, very interesting. It was good enough to get me to Kenya in three legs earlier this month. It got me to Johannesburg vacation packages to italy a week ago. It got me to Pietermaritzburg and back just fine. That s six times on this one trip I ve carried that bag on. So why is it suddenly too large ?
Occasionally, when I m boarding a tiny puddlejumper plane, the airline will ask to put a tag on the bag and then return it to me at the top of the ramp when we arrive. That s fine. But I keep my camera in that bag, so I have no intention of checking my carry-on. It just ain t gonna happen. Plus, this KLM flight was aboard no puddlejumper. This was aboard a new 747-400.
Once aboard the plane,  I found my seat smack in the middle of the middle section. A nightmare for someone like myself who depends on a bulkhead vacation packages to italy so I can sleep. And, of course, I don t really fit in airline seats anyway. So I would doubly vacation packages to italy screwed here.
The one thing I did not do immediately was take a shower. I had spent much of the previous few hours sweating profusely. I had hoped to buy some shower time here, but the gentleman whose phone needed recharging made use of them and was saying nothing but bad things about them.
No, it turned vacation packages to italy out the water control works for only about three minutes at a time. Punch the button and it immediately vacation packages to italy turns on again. This kept me from exiting my shower room with a scalp full of soap.
Another issue: I keep having coughing fits. During my two weeks in Kenya, I found myself reacting, most likely, to something blooming there. And then an infection set into my lungs. vacation packages to italy I ve been coughing ever since.
Amsterdam s a GREAT city and Schiphol International is so user-friendly and but less than a 7 mile train ride to City Center where you find the Rijksmuseum, Van Gogh Museum, and numerous coffee houses (I ve been told)!
Amsterdam s a GREAT city and Schiphol International is so user-friendly and but less than a 7 mile train ride to City Center where you find the Rijksmuseum, Van Gogh Museum, and numerous coffee houses (I ve been told)! Welcome home!
Charles Apple is a freelance visual journalist and instructor. A longtime news artist and designer, he is the former graphics director of the Virginian-Pilot vacation packages to italy and the Des Moines Register. He teaches design and graphics workshops and seminars and spends way too much time online. Read more ...
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