hearty breakfast before departing for the big hills.
Yesterday was spent buying oxygen bottles and going to the hospital to
get them filled. Then it was on to Carrafour to do some shopping for
things like wash basins, plates, knives and forks etc.
The other members of the team seem less focused on practical matters
like having something to clean dishes in than yours truly. Nothing
like a good list prepared well in advance! Must have learnt that from
my father on our Okarito expeditions.
The customers of Paddys have been great help driving us around the
city in the new V12 Merc to get all the gear, and let night took us
out to a top restaurant for dinner - generosity beyond the call of
duty in my opinion, but all his Chinese colleagues are the same.
So I am hoping that it will be cooler in the mountains, since we
weren't expecting 30 degrees here.
If you find that occasionally things are repeated it's because I can't
read the blog myself - it is a site blocked from Internet access here
unless you have a virtual private network.
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