We leave today! Thursday 18th October

Four of us are flying out from Gatwick at 2115 this evening. We will meet Theo and Zoe in Dubai at breakfast time tomorrow, as they are flying earlier. We have a brief wait at Dubai while we change planes and are scheduled to land at Entebbe at 1445 local time tomorrow. Uganda is only two hours ahead of the UK.
When we have picked up our transport at Entebbe we will head East to Jinja, where we are staying the night before heading to Irundu the next morning.
We are starting our anti-malarial tablets now, which are a modern drug (Malarone) and fortunately have no side-effects.
I have got a slight technical hitch in updating this blog, since my BlackBerry will not be able to send or receive emails in Uganda (I would need to take out a contract with a local provider, which is not really practical). However, I should be able to work round it through a combination of using other internet PCs (power supplies permitting!) and by sending text messages to Christina, who can edit the blog in the UK. Fingers crossed!