{"id":1572,"date":"2014-01-25T12:39:31","date_gmt":"2014-01-25T12:39:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.asimons.co.uk\/?p=1572"},"modified":"2014-01-25T12:42:23","modified_gmt":"2014-01-25T12:42:23","slug":"the-last-farewell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.asimons.co.uk\/?p=1572","title":{"rendered":"The Last Farewell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our final hours in Kenya were spent&#8230; packing, doing the previous day&#8217;s blog, and relaxing. Joe arrived, having delivered Mary to school in Kaloleni. After a light lunch, it was time for farewells and to travel to the airport.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.asimons.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/IMG_20140123_1325501.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1577\" alt=\"IMG_20140123_132550\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.asimons.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/IMG_20140123_1325501-225x300.jpg\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.asimons.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/IMG_20140123_1325501-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blog.asimons.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/IMG_20140123_1325501-142x190.jpg 142w, https:\/\/blog.asimons.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/IMG_20140123_1325501.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bye, Flash<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.asimons.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/IMG_20140123_132637.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1578\" alt=\"IMG_20140123_132637\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.asimons.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/IMG_20140123_132637-225x300.jpg\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.asimons.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/IMG_20140123_132637-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blog.asimons.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/IMG_20140123_132637-142x190.jpg 142w, https:\/\/blog.asimons.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/IMG_20140123_132637.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bye, Shanique (and Tina)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.asimons.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/IMG_20140123_1350161.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1579\" alt=\"IMG_20140123_135016\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.asimons.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/IMG_20140123_1350161-225x300.jpg\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.asimons.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/IMG_20140123_1350161-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blog.asimons.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/IMG_20140123_1350161-142x190.jpg 142w, https:\/\/blog.asimons.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/IMG_20140123_1350161.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Edu came with us to the airport and organised the bags.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.asimons.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/IMG_20140123_1438311.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1580\" alt=\"IMG_20140123_143831\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.asimons.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/IMG_20140123_1438311-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.asimons.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/IMG_20140123_1438311-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.asimons.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/IMG_20140123_1438311-190x142.jpg 190w, https:\/\/blog.asimons.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/IMG_20140123_1438311.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We enjoyed a final drink with Joe and Edu, then we were on our own &#8211; into the terminal, balancing weight between bags (though we&#8217;d got it pretty close), check in, upstairs to departures, a few minutes to get the computer out&#8230; then we were called through security!<\/p>\n<p>The flight to Addis left almost 30 minutes early (which was a pain, because at Mombasa we had internet and at Addis we had naff all!). 6.5 hours in Bole International Airport is a long wait, though there were beds to lie on and we had books to read.<\/p>\n<p>The flight to London left on time, and arrived 30 minutes early. Luckily Mark, who was meeting us, was there when we emerged, and we were home soon after 08:30.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our final hours in Kenya were spent&#8230; packing, doing the previous day&#8217;s blog, and relaxing. Joe arrived, having delivered Mary to school in Kaloleni. After a light lunch, it was time for farewells and to travel to the airport. Bye, Flash Bye, Shanique (and Tina) Edu came with us to the airport and organised the&hellip; <a class=\"continue\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.asimons.co.uk\/?p=1572\">Continue Reading The Last Farewell<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","radius"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p43dbc-pm","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.asimons.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.asimons.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.asimons.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.asimons.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.asimons.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1572"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.asimons.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1582,"href":"https:\/\/blog.asimons.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1572\/revisions\/1582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.asimons.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.asimons.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.asimons.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}