{"id":615,"date":"2007-10-02T06:05:31","date_gmt":"2007-10-02T06:05:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/archives\/2007\/10\/02\/on-my-way-home\/"},"modified":"2007-10-02T06:05:31","modified_gmt":"2007-10-02T06:05:31","slug":"on-my-way-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/archives\/2007\/10\/02\/on-my-way-home\/","title":{"rendered":"On my way home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m currently sitting in Schiphol airport, waiting for my flight to Edinburgh.  I&#8217;m also in the slightly strange state of mind caused by not sleeping and eating meals at very odd times (dinner around 2330, breakfast around 0400).<\/p>\n<p>One thing I&#8217;ve noticed on flights to and from Nigeria is that the Nigerians tend to wear Western clothes going to Europe and Nigerian clothes on the way back to Nigeria.  I&#8217;m guessing that this might have something to do with the attitudes of European officials.  For example, you may be less likely to get hassle from immigration if you&#8217;re wearing jeans than if you&#8217;re in full <em>babanriga<\/em>.  On the other hand, Nigerian officials will treat you better if you look like a big man.  I&#8217;m sure there are other explanations&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Later today I should be arriving at Edinburgh airport to be shocked by the change from hot and humid Abuja to cold and windy Scotland.  Last I heard it&#8217;s going to be my sister, niece and nephew picking me up, should be fun.  Will little Eve still recognise me?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m currently sitting in Schiphol airport, waiting for my flight to Edinburgh. I&#8217;m also in the slightly strange state of mind caused by not sleeping and eating meals at very odd times (dinner around 2330, breakfast around 0400). One thing I&#8217;ve noticed on flights to and from Nigeria is that the Nigerians tend to wear [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel","category-vso"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615","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=615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}