Day 1

So I arrived to Lagos, yesterday evening and I have to say what a relaxing and calm journey it was. I didn't experience any stress at all. My only discomfort was the passenger seated by me in the plane, who decided to ignore the armrest diving us and slide over into my personal space.

We touched down a few minutes to 6 pm. I was able to pass through the health screening point and immigration in under twenty five minutes. It took a further fifteen to retrieve a trolley and pick up my luggage from the conveyor belt.

I proceeded to the exit stopping to top up my phone and withdraw some cash from the ATM machine. My friend was already waiting for me at arrivals… we took a shuttle bus from arrivals to the airport car park where he loaded my luggage in his trunk, and began our journey towards Ikoyi.

Just when I thought the journey was going nice and swiftly I heard a pummeling noise coming from the rear of the vehicle. We pulled over from the express way to find the rear left tyre completely flat. This was a serious puncture. By this point in my mind I am grumbling saying ‘oh lord why this? Now were going to be stuck here for ages.’ I was not impressed, however tried to assist my driver in changing the tyre to the spare one by turning on the torch light on my iPhone. Despite not having all the necessary resources my driver managed to replace the punctured tyre in under ten minutes… low and behold we were back on the road again YAY! I arrived at my hotel in Ikoyi shortly before 9pm made an order of chicken and chips... I slept like a baby.