A half hour before the plane that was supposed to taked us from Bissau to Lisbon, Portugal, had arrived, word spread in the Bissau airport that the flight was canceled. A mechanical problem with the plane forced it to turn around before it got here, stranding a couple hundred would-be travellers in Bissau for at least a day. The flight from Portugal to Lisbon is the main event each week at the small airport (it only arrives once a week). Travellers spent all day checking in luggage and going through security. Then it all fell apart. It was chaos trying to figure out what we were supposed to do. Thankfully, we found some Eñglish-speaking Europeans who knew a nice hotel in Bissau and arranged the Portugese airline to pay for the rooms and dinner.
So tonight ended up an adventure, and a chance to meet some interesting people and see another side of Guinea-Bissau. We ate at a nice restaurant (they actually had menus there) and had some good, sophisticated, high-brow, European conversation. I´m tired now, and ready to turn in. Pray that the flight tomorrow will work out well.
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