Second day of travelling

A writes :-)

After a good night sleep, we were fresh and ready for our next adventure: our flight to Haiti. We arrived in Haiti to the most crazy airport we have both encountered.

When they say carrousel, it came 10 ft and then the porters threw the cases into a huge pile in arrivals. Five of our six came out first and we retrieved them easily (even though one of them had no wheels which had been broken off during transit), but the last one took ages and that’s when the fun started, chaos began as the arrivals hall filled up, some cases had been opened as clothes were hanging out. Ours finally came through and we were able to make our way to customs, the guard opened two cases asked if we had any drugs, I said yes to help against malaria, he shrugged his shoulders and let us through. Our colleagues were at the exit waiting with a great big welcome sign, by the time we got there it was welcome.

Mike and Brenda greeted us and took us to our new (temporary) home. Well let’s just say if Mike and Brenda hadn’t brought so much stuff for us it would be a different story. We have a double bed with net, wardrobe, two plastic chairs and small table, toaster, coffee maker, bread and butter, milk and water. We have two rooms and a shower room. I think the term basic applies here.

The first evening we were treated out at a restaurant, having chicken and chips and a huge fresh fruit drink, it was awfully expensive so I think we will save that for Birthday’s and our anniversary.

There are very many similarities to Guinea and West Africa, dust, noise, traffic, heat just to name a few and the MOSQUITO. Smaller more agile and hard to catch, there are hundreds of them, I A feel like a pin cushion. One particular bite is on my ear, which has swollen, thank goodness for after bite relief cream.

Shower

Kitchen