FAR AWAY BUT CLOSE TO HOME - VETERANS STORIES 2

Transit : On the way to somewhere else.

©2001www.arttoday.com
Giza, Cairo.

Flying across Africa
Steve Jenner : Musquodoboit Harbour

It was too dangerous to fly at night. We got back on the plane the next day. We flew South down to Africa, and we had breakfast in The Gambia. The Gambia is on the very far Western tip of Africa. We spent Christmas in a golf club in Nigeria. It was the officers transit camp, and we spent five days there. Then we got on another airplane, there were no seats, just mattresses on the floor. We flew all across Africa from West to East lying on those mattresses! It took three days before we got to Khartoum. I remember seeing Lawrence Olivier and Vivien Leigh in a film about Lord Nelson. Then we flew North down the Nile river. That took us all day. We flew down the Nile to Cairo. I remember going to Luxor to the Valley of the Kings, then we landed in Cairo. Cairo was sort of a real melting pot. It is too hard to say what it was really like, it was a real zoo.

173 Words

©2001www.arttoday.com