this was taken at Entebbe airport in Uganda in january of 2006. it's an Egypt Air Aribus A319 and is one of the two planes dad and i flew in on the flight back to blighty. being Egypt Air we had to change at Cairo and this plane was half empty, the few of us on the plane pretty much spread out and most of the others slept for the four hours or so it took to get to Cairo. after that leisurely flight the Cairo to Heathrow leg of the journey was a different story altogether. we flew in a Boeing 777 and the plane was packed to the gills! if they allowed standing room there would be people standing in the aisles! i'd say that over 90% of the passengers were middle eastern, a good proportion of whom were probably the faithful returning from Mecca. there was also a lot of unnecessarily large 'hand' luggage getting in the way, and by large i mean suitcases, stuff just a little too big for the overhead panniers. but this didn't matter because what really bothered me was the rather alarming coughing from a lot of the faithful. this was when the initial worry over bird flu was dying down so i'm sure you can understand my apprehension...
on a side note, this photo was taken with the first digital camera i bought, a Casio Exilim EX-S3 'card' camera. cos it's very slim. it's a 3 megapixel camera and i still have it somewhere. it's quite the little gem and while the image quality won't knock you out it never let me down. i have made some pretty decent 10x8 prints from it's photos. maybe i'll make a little gallery showing the best of this camera, what do you think? certainly a set for it on flickr, at least...
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