The hotel in Kampala was very comfortable last night and we all slept well after the long journey.
Uganda is 2 hours ahead of the UK so we were all in bed very early last night and up early for breakfast this morning.
The hotel had coffee and toast all ready for us, the pineapple was very refreshing and the cooked potatoes, sausages and beans looked very appetising too.
We then went off to Garden City in Kampala. it's a shopping centre with a bank and a supermarket. The supermarket sells everything from food to books and beds. We bought some lovely filled baguettes for lunch and bottles of water for the journey then got on the bus and travelled the 3.5 hours north towards Masindi.
The countryside is very lush and green. There are lots of people walking along the side of the road or on bicycles. We passed lots of cows being herded along the road too. In Kampala there are lots of storks - they are enormous! They can eat up to ten times their body weight in rubbish but they are also becoming a pest. It's a bit of a problem for the people in Kampala!
The bus had to slow down or stop for police road checks a few times and each time it was surrounded by locals trying to sell their food through the windows. We bought some bananas and pineapples. We ate the pineapples after our official welcome by the District Education Officer and the Minister for Health, Education and Sports. The pineapples were delicious!
Tomorrow we are having lots of meetings so it's off to bed under the mosquito net for now.
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