A wonderful night sleep undisturbed by midnight marauders or demented canines. Duncan managed to get a bus ticket pretty easily yesterday for today and we assumed it would persist. We couldn’t get into Sims in Chengu tonight but we are in there tomorrow and in Sam’s tonight. IF we can get down there!!!! Apparently the buses are totally packed for days??? We are waiting for the hotel fellow to get back from the bus station, hopefully with tickets. We can’t stay here either!! And we seem to have roasted the laptop’s surge protector. Ooooh joy!!! But it could be worse couldn’t it . . . .? Can hear the motor bike . . . no tickets today. Bugger. We can have half of a 4 bed dorm and if the other couple decide not to stay we can buy out the whole room. There would have to be many worse places to spend a day with warm sun striking off the really tall snow-capped mountains down the valley. And there is always the Irish.
Today’s international news includes scandal in Spain, where a fabulously rich 85 year old Countess has been snapped topless shortly before her wedding. They are running a picture of her sitting next to Camilla P-B. And the winner is . . . . . ?
Had a long walk up the valley. Only 2800m here but very much crammed into a narrow valley surrounded by peaks, one of them 7500m. Astonished by the ferocity of the torrent of water plunging through the centre of town.
We had a really good dinner of Irish Stew and Chile con carne. Big bowls, full bodied and complex – perfect comfort food. Stephie set Alyssa up with a little cup cake and a candle and we sang Happy Birthday for her over Skype, which has been a big success story so far. Then we chatted to a couple of Israelis until bed time. Turned out we were dorming with their friends.
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