13 February 2019
Bob arrives
Tuesday 12 February
Bob was due to arrive today. We learnt at breakfast that his
flight time had been changed, as have all Thomas Cook flights from London.
Instead of leaving at 8.20 it was now 11.10 meaning a Gambia arrival of 5.30.
We had already planned our day so now had some extra time.
We set off to Brikama area to make as many payments as we
could. We succeeded in making more than 20 payments before dropping in at
Gambia College to check on arrangements for the workshops: all seems to be to
be going fine.
We then called in at Yundum Barracks School to discuss the
library project. They had already produced a proposal, but it was too large and
too expensive and they had been asked to scale it down. The head teacher was
not in school but on hearing we were there swiftly arrived. They had scale
plans for the revised version, but the costings were not yet complete. He said
they would be ready by Thursday. War would also like to speak to the librarian
who will also be available then so we will return on Thursday.
We had a couple of hours to spare before Bob’s plane arrived
and it was not worth returning to the hotel, so we retired to a nearby hotel
bar for some drinks. Whilst there we took the opportunity of bringing the
paperwork up to dater before going to the airport and picking up Bob.
Today was the hottest so far. Bob was told by the aircraft
captain that the outside temperature at the airport was 39C (102F).
