15th - 16th - Arriving in Madagascar

I left Copenhagen as scheduled with no issues. The layover in Amsterdam was 2-3 hours which meant plenty of time to get to the next flight and still have time to relax and have a look around.

I like Kenya Airways which I flew with from Amsterdam to Nairobi; they have the entertainment system turned on all the time which means that you can start watching movies from when you are seated and don’t have to wait until we are in the air (obviously unless you are sitting at the emergency exit). I was sitting next to Mr. B. Igelbows but that wasn’t the airline’s fault. I doubt that he had been flying much as he didn’t even know how to tip his seat back.

5 hours’ layover in Nairobi.

5 hours.

For those of you who knows the airport know what a pain it is to spend any amount of time there; there is absolutely nothing to do there. At all. And it doesn’t help arriving in the early morning after a red-eye flight without much sleep.

Flight from there to Antananarivo (Tana) went fine; 3½ hours with a meal and entertainment system made things very manageable.

As usual we had a greeting meeting at around 1800 followed by a dinner together. This is a first; a guy in the group knows one of the people I travelled with on the Annapurna Circuit last year. It’s a small world.