Alphabet Travel

[Seth and Lu]

So after a million missions successfully completed, god knows how, here we are sat at Gate 42 of Stansted airport, waiting for our luxury RyanAir flight to Agadir. We’ve passed a moderately restful night on the floor outside WH Smiths, and since negotiated the stingy RyanAir luggage limits–after packing, repacking, and repacking again. A final English fry up, a few inevitable duty-free purchases, and we’re ready to put the first stamps into our brand new jumbo passports.

So let’s see, what’s in our bags of tricks? What did we spend so long fiddling with our bags for to get past the eagle-eyed guess-your-weight gatekeepers? Well, Lu has a gameboy with 15 games (yes 15) (gameboy pocket, she corrects me) a sketchbook, pencils, pens, erasers, three travelogues–Cameroon with Egbert, Road to Timbuktu, and Show me the Magic (about Benin). She had to leave about four others behind . Nigeria Bradt guide, Morocco guidebooks, W. Africa LP (and Southern, and Africa LPs). An owl-decorated cover for her passport; a ball of string, and some safetypins. And a toy lemur called Lisha.

I’ve got two cameras (the 450d and the 350d). I’m taking the 50mm Canon lens, 17-55  Canon IS USM, 55-250mm Canon,  and the 10-20mm Sigma. Tripod, flash etc. A few introductory philosophy books (epistemology, logic, philosophy of mind) as well as Susan Sontag’s on Photography. A laptop on which I’m writing. And that’s the boarding call! Lu’s in the line and they’ve only started with priority boarding but I’d better go.

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