Our flight home was ok, this was the first time we had flown back to Malawi via Johannesburg which is an 11 hour night flight and definitely better than lots of shorter flights when we have flown the cheaper route (via Nairobi or Addis). We managed to spread the sleeping children over 3 seats and I found a spare seat so we all got a bit of sleep. The stop at Jo’burg airport was nice and there were quite a few friends also returning to Blantyre all enjoying a last latte or cappuccino!
The contrasts between here and home are much more noticeable when you first arrive back. We were amused by the “customer service” at Jo’burg airport when the lady checking our passports carried on a conversation with her friend the whole time she was serving us! The chaos of Blantyre airport felt worse than usual, there weren’t enough trollies and most of us had more luggage than we could carry and the space is not big enough and it’s a hot building. Once you get your trolley loaded you have to steer it around the guys who are all wanting to help and who pretend not to understand “no”.
The first few days back are always spent organising things, there’s often things that can’t be done until others have been completed. So the car battery was flat but we couldn’t charge it until we had more electricity, we couldn’t get more electric until we got cash organised and then there was a delay as the electric co. had problems with their computers!
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