Greetings from Blonay in Switzerland!
I was packing until after Danny turned up to take me to the airport at 1am yesterday, and although checked in in plenty of time the plane was late leaving Ouaga. For some that meant panic with connections once we got to Casablanca (2 flights were 5 mins from actually leaving) but I had LOTS of time: in fact I was there until 3.30pm when our flight started boarding without any announcement that I had heard. During the time in Casablanca I tried to catch up on sleep a little but when that didn't work for long so took strolls down the long modern hall and looked in the little shops. We should have boarded at 2.30, so were again one hour late, which turned into only half an hour late at Geneva.
My luggage arrived safely, except the zipper tabs broken on one where they had cut off padlocks, and one zipper tab completely missing on the one which is normally my carryon. Nothing inside seemed to have been disturbed so far although I haven't checked every tiny corner, and I should have been able to tell since it was all packed so tightly.
My first trip with Air Maroc (Moroccan) seemed fine for the reduced price (except for the affair of the padlocks), and certainly much more like the major airlines in professional and security/safety conduct compared with the even cheaper Libyan Afriqayah which had me scared at points last year and was VERY uncomfortable in the one small room they enclosed all transit passengers, full of smoke and loud music and a dirty nonfunctioning toilet.
By the time I got out of the quick looksee at my passport at Geneva immigration my bags were on the conveyor belt and was in the car with Stéphane and Myriam and on the way to Blonay. We chatted quite a while before going to bed, where it was nice sleeping under a quilt in the cool again.
We're having a relaxing day with our trip to SIM in Bienne put off to next week, and while Stéphane is at work Myriam and I did a quick walk around the village/small town to the outskirts of the chateau (the Blonays still live there so it isn't open to the public: it's in the right hand corner of the photo), the shops, and a park with a view of the lake and mountains.
