Well, here we are in 'beautiful' Lisbon.

Saturday morning, after Elden and Karen Martin dropped us off, we were on our way to Vancouver (only a slight delay). We had a reasonable flight flying to London, even touching down on time. We got a good view of the whole airport as we then taxied for close to half an hour at a goodly speed all over Heathrow.

Of course we knew already that there had been some weather related delays/cancellations and now we became part of that. Quite a few cancelled flights on the departure boards. Ours showed just a delay, ..and then another and another. We did eventually leave at around ten. (after de-icing). Arriving in Lisbon at 00.30 (Monday, January 21) we were well looked after by the ground crew of the airline. Quite a task to get some sixty people organised and taken to a hotel.

After a quick shower we rolled into bed at 2.30. Margreet woke me up at 11.30 (way too early!)

Thankfully we always have a change of clothing in our backpacks!

We are scheduled to be picked up at six and arrive in Dakar just past midnight.
Will try to send some pictures as well.

(Ed. note: And here are those pictures!)