Today is the last day of our preparations and there has been much talk about how much people should carry from individuals personal entourage. Frankly rather too much detail about how often guys should change their clothes and what short cuts they are prepared to take to shed weight! So cases and ruck sacks have been re packed to ensure we stay below the porters quota of 10kg each. Moving on to less parochial matters three of us walked the 3.6km into the local town, Moshi, a no frills typical mid African town where Western faces, indeed tourists are fair game for hassle. The walk, for those of us that have not experienced third world life were both biblical and enticing in equal measure. Like a David Lean film where someone queues the boy pushing the wheelbarrow full of bananas in front of us, a little boy is seen rolling a cycle tyre with a stick and a noisy, seriously overcrowded bus screeches past us. In the afternoon the clouds finally lifted from the top of Kilimanjaro and it revealed its majesty and the task ahead of us suddenly became urgent and really exciting.
Hi Guys, Just thought you would like to know that Chelsea won tonight against Liverpool. Good luck with first leg of climb - can't wait for the next installment!! Nite Nite T x
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