On our way home again

Travelling home is always more tiring and less welcome than travelling out. When the holiday is over, you just want to get home as quickly as possible but it is rarely the case. We were allowed to keep our room until 12 noon and therefore were able to spend our last morning at

Breezes enjoying the sun and the view and then having checked out, our usual light lunch.

Our taxi arrived on time and within an hour, we were at Zanzibar Airport which we would say, is not one of the most comfortable or modern airports we have ever been to - very hot and humid sums it up. But it worked and eventually we boarded our on-time departure.

Unfortunately it was an old plane taking us to Doha with no seat back entertainment. There then followed a very boring five hour layover in transit at Doha - it really is not as good an airport for transit passengers as Changi.

Then an Airbus A380 with lots of leg room and fairly poor food took us back to Heathrow and after a rather long wait for one of our bags and a train which broke down a few miles from our station, we were home at 12 noon UK time or 26 hours after we had left our hotel in Zanzibar. I realise that the account of the journey back reads a bit negative - it was long and was not the highlight of the holiday but there was not much anyone could do to make it more enjoyable !

Overall, we thought this was a superb two weeks which gave us all that we had wanted from a safari and then a very relaxing week by the sea. We thought the people of Tanzania were very very welcoming, nearly always smiling and we left the country with a very positive view of it as a holiday destination. Thank-you Zoe of Audley Travel for sorting it out.