{"id":521,"date":"2006-11-22T11:06:18","date_gmt":"2006-11-22T11:06:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/archives\/2006\/11\/22\/back-in-nigeria\/"},"modified":"2006-11-22T11:06:18","modified_gmt":"2006-11-22T11:06:18","slug":"back-in-nigeria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/archives\/2006\/11\/22\/back-in-nigeria\/","title":{"rendered":"Back in Nigeria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I got back to Nigeria on Sunday night and it&#8217;s actually good to be back.<\/p>\n<p>Arrival at Abuja was relatively trouble-free, a longish queue at immigration but nothing too bad.  Some random airport employee demanded that I let him see what was in my bags, so I checked his ID, established that he wasn&#8217;t a customs officer and said no.  The real customs guys greeted me, peered in the top of my rucksack (mostly full of socks) and waved me on.<\/p>\n<p>It was quite pleasant wandering about Abuja on Monday, <a href=\"\/_static\/site\/NGglossary#harmattan\" class=\"glossary\">Harmattan<\/a> has come earlier this year and all the dust in the air reduces the heat a bit.<\/p>\n<p>I immediately felt at home, but then that tends to happen wherever I am.<\/p>\n<p>Back in Kaduna it&#8217;s almost like I was never away.  The weather has obviously changed, it&#8217;s now cold enough at night that I need a blanket.  I picked up an electronic thermometer at Schiphol, so I&#8217;ll have to update this with the current max\/min temperatures.<\/p>\n<p>I spent most of yesterday wandering around NTI handing out presents (lots of nice <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nts.org.uk\/\">National Trust<\/a> calendars) and greeting everyone.  Everyone was asking about my family and expressing horror when I told them about the cold and darkness in Scotland at this time of year.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I&#8217;ll stick up some pictures from my trip back home once I&#8217;ve got round to downloading them from the camera.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got back to Nigeria on Sunday night and it&#8217;s actually good to be back. Arrival at Abuja was relatively trouble-free, a longish queue at immigration but nothing too bad. Some random airport employee demanded that I let him see what was in my bags, so I checked his ID, established that he wasn&#8217;t a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vso"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}