7:30AM I woke and had the breakfast omelet before taking a taxi to the COVID testing center located in the airport carpark 4. The weather was nice today, Temperature was about 27 degrees Celsius since it just rained. I now can be convinced to be a believer in that rainy season could be a good thing, as long as it doesn’t rain all day.
11AM I got the negative testing result and walked over to check in. The TAP Air manager told me to try to check in with British Airways when I return in order to get a boarding pass so that it would be possible for me get to departure. Otherwise, I would be stuck in the small transit zone without food or water for one full day.
3PM I sat in the Sanbra Lounge
until the plane took off for Sao Tome at 3:30PM. I spoke to an English girl,
Rachel Bowers, who was working at Ghana. She is here on vacation with her
housemates. She is a statistician.
5PM We arrived at Sao Tome. The
customs didn’t give me a hard time but I made sure to speak to several agents
from TAP Air to make sure that I wouldn’t need another COVID test done at Sao
Tome. The TAP manager there assured me so.
8PM I started walking toward Casa
Luis. I hitched a motorbike for most of the way and walked the rest, which was
unpaved. The hosts were not there yet. A Frenchman let me into one of the room.
Right after I took a shower, the host came back and led me into a nicer room.
They even invited me for dinner. I tried some sailfish. They had a very quaint
house with a pool. The only complaint was that power was often cut out in the middle of the night.
Apparently this occurs pretty frequently here in Sao Tome.
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