I have always heard it said that there is a very thin line between life and death. While I believe it to be true, I never really understood it, till I came close to crossing the line that separates life from after-life on Tuesday, 22nd October 2019. I had just returned from work on a […]
I had just stepped out of Roban Stores, Awka on the evening of Saturday, August 3, 2019 to see a burning vehicle just across the road. The owner, with his wife, packed in front of the mall to discuss when all of a sudden, an explosion was heard from the bonnet and the car went […]
It was a few minutes to midnight when I finally got home from Regina Caeli Hospital, Awka, on Sunday, July 28, 2019. A friend’s wife was admitted at the hospital few days earlier and I got a wind of it that day. I went straight to the hospital after mass to spend time with them […]
Turbulence On Air – My Flight From Austria To Nigeria Finally, our two weeks stay in Austria came to an end and it was time to return home. We were booked for a 9am flight from Vienna to Amsterdam, then onwards to Nigeria. That meant we needed to be at the airport before 8am for […]
WELCOME TO AUSTRIA : MY TWO WEEKS EXPERIENCE LIVING IN LINZ After about an hour thirty minutes of flight from Schiphol airport, Amsterdam, we landed at Vienna Int’l airport, Austria. It was a smooth flight, and enjoyable too. The airport in Vienna was not as massive as that in Holland. We disembarked from the plane […]
I Nearly Missed My Flight At Holland, Here Is Why (You might want to read up my story from HERE to understand how my journey to Europe started. You can also click HERE to follow up on my hilarious experience, traveling by air for the first time.) So we landed at Schiphol Int’l airport Amsterdam […]
Take-Off And Landing : My First Time On An Airplane CONTINUED FROM MY TRAVEL STORY HERE So we were able to locate our boarding gate and queued up for boarding when it was time. We passed through the necessary customs and immigration checks and lined up to enter the plane. We were directed through a […]
INTRODUCTION As a way of introduction, and as you may have rightly guessed from the title of my story; I GOT A SHENGHEN VISA ON A VIRGIN PASSPORT. I had never travelled out of Nigeria before, but I have always wanted to. I had never entered a plane before, or even interacted with it, well […]