Wrong turn?

I took the wrong road on the way back from Crawley this morning (how I ever became a geography teacher with absolutely no sense of direction is beyond me!) and ended up by the perimeter fence at Gatwick Airport. When my kids were little, I often took them here to look at the planes. It used to strike me as very odd that there was virtually no security but they seem to have fixed that now!

Strange conversation with my Aghan friends the other day. Although they left several years ago because of the beatings the husband received from the Taliban, for things like having the wrong length hair or not praying at exactly the right time, and have since lived here in peace and safety, they don't understand why people are trying to leave. Their parents are still in Kabul and have said it's nowhere near as bad as 'last time'. They all seem to believe everything the Taliban have said in their press conferences, that they've changed, that the Afghan people should stay, and that life will be good in Afghanistan with them in charge. Hmmmm, we shall see...

Being a total 'anorak', I just had a look at Kabul airport on the Flightradar app and have put a screenshot in the 'extras'. The big plane is a Kam Air Airbus A340 and the three smaller ones are US, Turkish and Australian Air Force planes. What really surprised me, though, was that one of the roads leading to the airport is called 'Russian Road' and another is called '1st May Road', the original date Trump agreed with the Taliban for withdrawing the troops. I can't find if this date has any other significance? Answers on a postcard, please...