Islamabad airport around 5am
Like walking next to a red hot engine, warm humid heat 0 at 4:30am!
Waited ages for bags then left into a sea of Pakistani faces. Really glad I am not on my own! Got a cab - horn is used more than brake pedal - Rawalpindi looks like a real dump - a concrete jungle of decay. Got to 'hotel' - amazingly bad - smelly - loud fan in roof - horrendous carpet.
Toilet, shower, yuk! what the hell am I doing here? worried about the solo return journey now - think I will go to the best hotel I can find!
Cost wise - twin room 4.50 GBP per night - you cannot camp out for so little back home
This is apparently good according to Brian - I am worried about bad then!
Eating will be a worry - what will the hygiene be like? is this a big expensive mistake???
'Papillons cell'
Footnotes:
This was the biggest culture shock of my life - my negative reactions were due to arriving unprepared straight out of London. My worries and fears did not spoil the trip as I was to think and it was not long before I had 'gone native' and was sat on the concrete floor of the combined loo/shower room doing my laundry in a big plastic bucket that I had previously thought of as 'Papillons Cell'
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