Well, we finally leave tonight. The bags are packed. The younger kid is almost delirious with excitement; the older one appears suitably disinterested and aloof. My wife wants to add a knife to one of the suitcases. I wonder why. She says it is to enable us to consume fruit in a civil way. May be the packing has tired her. She wonders if a shiny new car would have been better than dragging ourselves through rain and fog all over an alien continent. Well, she won't know till she gets back; and she might still want the car!
Thomas Cook is not being as thoughtful as we thought they would be. They have arranged a 7 hour layover, sorry, stopover for us in Qatar. However beautiful an airport maybe, 7 hours is a little prolonged! I have reassured the family that we are trying to open our minds with travel and if sitting huddled for a few hours in an oil rich part of the world is going to help us accomplish this lofty aim, so be it! They do not smile.
More from where ever I can find wi-fi!
More from where ever I can find wi-fi!
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