Leaving Montreal, with Dorianne and Seb at the Airport was really difficult in some ways, excitment to travel again and sad to leave them behind. There was some difficulty in getting our electronic tickets printed but after an hour we managed to book all our luggage in ...all 8 pieces of it! We paid 600$ extra but at least it was booked through to Kinshasa. When we arrived in New York we had another problem, as SAA wanted to charge us again for our luggage...the young woman was not very helpful at all....guess i managed to annoy her, as she had both V and I searched on our way through Security..She marked SSSS on our boarding pases so we where pulled aside and I was x-rayed..not.funny!!! I felt that my privacy was invaded in a way but guess that is the joy of travelling.
We arrived well rested in Johannesburg thanks to the good seats we had. I was fortunate to get to see my daughter Tanya, her husband Stefan little Lizel and baby brother Theo..I will put pictures up shortly to show the happy reunion...
The next day we where up very early and ready to get our flight to Kinshasa. We arrived here in Kin at about lunch time....
Getting to the entrance of the airport building , you have your passport checked for a visa and yellow fever card is presented at this time....Well we had a copy of our visa but not in the passport as yet . No one asks for proof they jsut send you off to a little room where they demand money for the visa and are generally abit intimidating ......Eventually someone came to our rescue with the visa and money to pay for them as it is all taken care of by the company....
We where taken off to wait for our luggage in a VIP lounge. You then have to identify your luggage which V did, only to dicover that one case was missing...mine.
I thought that I would end up with no underware but plenty of jeans to wear!!!!!Not very helpful in a warm climate. On that note it is a very nice tempreture here at the moment ...it is said to be there winter its about 21
The suitcase turned up at the Hotel yesterday in good condition with everything still in it ...
We are staying at the Grand Hotel in town I think it was a very nice looking Hotel at one time , at least I can say that our room is comfortable and we are well settled .This will be our home for the next 2 weeks . We have been told that we might be going to a place called Lumbumbashi. I am sure it will go well there.
We have already met some of the people that will be working with V, a lady from Australia and a couple from there as well.... I know that once we are settled we will be fine. Went shopping today to go and look at the Super Market and they have about everything you would need. The only thing is that the vegetable and fruit selection was not that great but I am sure we will find other shopŝ...
We arrived well rested in Johannesburg thanks to the good seats we had. I was fortunate to get to see my daughter Tanya, her husband Stefan little Lizel and baby brother Theo..I will put pictures up shortly to show the happy reunion...
The next day we where up very early and ready to get our flight to Kinshasa. We arrived here in Kin at about lunch time....
Getting to the entrance of the airport building , you have your passport checked for a visa and yellow fever card is presented at this time....Well we had a copy of our visa but not in the passport as yet . No one asks for proof they jsut send you off to a little room where they demand money for the visa and are generally abit intimidating ......Eventually someone came to our rescue with the visa and money to pay for them as it is all taken care of by the company....
We where taken off to wait for our luggage in a VIP lounge. You then have to identify your luggage which V did, only to dicover that one case was missing...mine.
I thought that I would end up with no underware but plenty of jeans to wear!!!!!Not very helpful in a warm climate. On that note it is a very nice tempreture here at the moment ...it is said to be there winter its about 21
The suitcase turned up at the Hotel yesterday in good condition with everything still in it ...
We are staying at the Grand Hotel in town I think it was a very nice looking Hotel at one time , at least I can say that our room is comfortable and we are well settled .This will be our home for the next 2 weeks . We have been told that we might be going to a place called Lumbumbashi. I am sure it will go well there.
We have already met some of the people that will be working with V, a lady from Australia and a couple from there as well.... I know that once we are settled we will be fine. Went shopping today to go and look at the Super Market and they have about everything you would need. The only thing is that the vegetable and fruit selection was not that great but I am sure we will find other shopŝ...
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