Visas and vaccinations

The preparations for my time in Nebbi has involved significant paper work and more injections that I really care to count.  Thank goodness I don't have a needle phobia as the vaccinations I have needed (yellow fever, rubella, polio, rabies, etc.) meant that I had to have over a dozen different jabs.  Any how have the paperwork to show that I have been vaccinated against just about everything.

Then I needed to have a medical for VMM's insurers - fortunately that was fairly straight forward to arrange.  Big thank you to my GP and the practice nurses at Queens Road Medical Practice for their help in sorting out all the medical arrangements.

Then there was the visa for Uganda.  Nervous about sending my passport off to the Ugandan Embassy, I decided to drop the paperwork and my passport off when in London in June.  I duly presented myself at the Embassy and handed over £70 and addressed a return envelope.  Thankfully, five days later there was a card from the postman on the mat when I got home from work and so off to the post office to collect my passport.

That only left booking flights - Aurigny from Guernsey to London Gatwick and the Emirates from Gatwick to Entebbe via Dubai (only followers of a certain age will perhaps feel a little nervous about the prospect of flying into Entebbe).  Fortunately the flights connect up fairly well and my spot over in Dubai in 2 hours on the outward journey and 4 hours on the way back.

Another thank you - this time to Aurigny for kindly giving me an additional baggage allowance free of charge - thanks Euan and customer services!