50p cigs

50p 50p 50p 50p 50p 50p 50p 50p 50p 50p 50p. I think i was starting to cry when i heard how much the Goldleaf cigarettes were for. At first they felt a bit weird compered to B&H but after a while they tasted like the best cigs in the world.

who ever smokes and i say this with sadness will know that a pack of cigs are to expensive in the U.K. a pack of B&H in 2001 was about £2.15 in 2008 it's about £2.90.We know that smoking is bad for your health and it is said that making cigs more expensive will make people think twice about smoking. however the tax that is given to the goverment by the tax companies are in the millions and if truly the government wanted to tackle smoking they would have banned the companies from making cigs, but that is another disscusion.

however some people call them throat burners but they 50p . i say it again 50p .

Pakistan transport

All you see are these massive decorated trucks which looked like some truck with women clothes on. You may be thinking what the hell is that, it the secret weapon of Pakistan, yes it a bus. it can carry up to 1000 people and if you move an inch your a goner.

luckily we had a AC van waiting for us at the airport which my uncle booked from Mirpur, A town which is north of Pakistan and near the border between India run Kashmir and Pakistan run Kashmir it's about 2 hours from the airport.

As we were going to Rawalpindi first, we noticed how packed the roads were and the sound of car horns make you jump and turn around. This experince was one of the best parts i enjoyed in Pakistan which involved traveling from one city to the other with service stops.

unlike in the U.K where service stops involve having McDonald or WHSmiths these service stops had, Samosa stop, corn on the stick stop, tea stops, pakistani sweets stops, mini hotels withcurries i had never seen in my life and the best thing cig shop.

The brilliant thing for me was if i had every item on that list once it would cost me a maximum of £3.

So far so good. I decided to become a chain smoker there and then.

finally arriving

Finally we had landed. after 8 hours we had finally we had landed. YES. If i knew what was going to happen i swear down i would have stayed on the plane.

After the normal check at any airport in the world we were waiting for our bags. In the start they were only a couple of bags coming then out of know were 500 bags then ours came along and we gripped the bags and put them on the half broken trolley's that were provided.

quickly all of us went towards the exit. pushing the half broken trolleys, then it hit us. you say what hit us. The heat people the heat. the heat in pakistan is not like Spain or Morocco. it's humid heat.

What tends to happen is after 5 minutes your head is killing and all you want is get under a AC.

Putting the heat to one side it felt good to come to a country were the people who you never meet in your life giving you hugs and saying always ASALAM ALAI KUM ( peace be with you) and ISHALLAHA ( god willing).

Next it was time to drive to Rawalpindi which is about 20 minutes from Islamabad airport, we had to go see relatives who my mum knew.