I sip water, eat a few crackers, doze a bit, wake up and do both again, several times before I get in the door. I then set up a table next to my bed with a pitcher of iced water, a glass with a flex straw and a bowl full of Club Crackers. I doze in bed but tend to wake up off and on, never getting into a deep sleep.
Entebbe. Often used as a retreat from busy Kampala, colonial Entebbe lies on the peaceful shores of Lake Victoria. Home of the only international airport in Uganda, it provides an attractive welcome to new visitors and a good way to âacclimatiseâ to Africa. The word âEntebbeâ means âseatâ in the local Luganda language, thought to be as this is where the Baganda Chief sat to adjudicate legal cases.
The answers may surprise you. July 4th marks the 40th anniversary of the famed rescue at Entebbe, in which Israeli commandos flew 2,000 miles into the heart of Africa to bring home over 100 Jewish hostages whose Air France flight had been hijacked to Uganda by Palestinian and German terrorists, abetted by Ugandan strongman Idi Amin.