{"id":42,"date":"2023-11-10T10:30:36","date_gmt":"2023-11-10T10:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cwbblogs.com\/uganda2023\/?p=42"},"modified":"2023-11-11T07:56:36","modified_gmt":"2023-11-11T07:56:36","slug":"the-journey-to-uganda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cwbblogs.com\/uganda2023\/2023\/11\/10\/the-journey-to-uganda\/","title":{"rendered":"A lot of hard yakka"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We all eventually made it to Heathrow even though one of us went to the wrong terminal. I won&#8217;t name names but will give those that know the group the chance to guess who. A kind staff member at check in let us load all the bags without worrying about the weight and we boarded flight some time later. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After a fairly long lay over at the biggest terminal I&#8217;ve ever been to in Doha, it was time to Board our flight to Entebbe. A few things we learnt from the layover:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Remember the duty free from the plane<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The marble floor is okay for sleeping if you are tired enough<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Allow yourself plenty of time for the gate. It was an absolute trek! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We were met by the beaming smiles of Manny and Joseph our long standing CWB bus driver. Manny is a former ambassador of CWB and now is the national coach of U19 team. With no room in the bus we slung kit bags on the roof and set off. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/cwbblogs.com\/uganda2023\/files\/2023\/11\/IMG-20231110-WA0059.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-68\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cwbblogs.com\/uganda2023\/files\/2023\/11\/IMG-20231110-WA0059.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cwbblogs.com\/uganda2023\/files\/2023\/11\/IMG-20231110-WA0059-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cwbblogs.com\/uganda2023\/files\/2023\/11\/IMG-20231110-WA0059-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>MVP: Joseph for the patience to drive in the dark for our 5 hour journey to Jinja<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is Africa (TIA) moment: Google maps saying it will take 3 hours and it taking 5 hours to Jinja. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"887\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/cwbblogs.com\/uganda2023\/files\/2023\/11\/IMG-20231110-WA0054.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-60\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cwbblogs.com\/uganda2023\/files\/2023\/11\/IMG-20231110-WA0054.jpg 887w, https:\/\/cwbblogs.com\/uganda2023\/files\/2023\/11\/IMG-20231110-WA0054-260x300.jpg 260w, https:\/\/cwbblogs.com\/uganda2023\/files\/2023\/11\/IMG-20231110-WA0054-768x887.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 887px) 100vw, 887px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>After 26 hours of travelling we made it to Surgios lodge for a much needed pizza and drink. Thank you to Lee for pre-ordering for us. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/cwbblogs.com\/uganda2023\/files\/2023\/11\/IMG-20231110-WA0053.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-62\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cwbblogs.com\/uganda2023\/files\/2023\/11\/IMG-20231110-WA0053.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cwbblogs.com\/uganda2023\/files\/2023\/11\/IMG-20231110-WA0053-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Time for some sleep before our next day ahead! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We all eventually made it to Heathrow even though one of us went to the&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/cwbblogs.com\/uganda2023\/2023\/11\/10\/the-journey-to-uganda\/\">Read the post<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A lot of hard yakka<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":112,"featured_media":59,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cwbblogs.com\/uganda2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cwbblogs.com\/uganda2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cwbblogs.com\/uganda2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cwbblogs.com\/uganda2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/112"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cwbblogs.com\/uganda2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/cwbblogs.com\/uganda2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78,"href":"https:\/\/cwbblogs.com\/uganda2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions\/78"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cwbblogs.com\/uganda2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cwbblogs.com\/uganda2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cwbblogs.com\/uganda2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cwbblogs.com\/uganda2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}