Hotel Kempinski- superb- putting us up for three nights free, or more if we want, so we are having a rest and having cars checked by local Merc dealer, free, as part of sponsorship.
Seeing press tonight after visit to local cleft clinic this afternoon which was very very touching. To see the awful probs these kids have and how easy it is to fix really makes you think that there are very good ways to spend money. We were then invited out to dinner with the surgeon and orthodontist, and presented with a plaque to thank us for our efforts in raising money.
We will now definitely exceed our fundraising objective, and if any of you have a spare pound or so, please consider giving the fund yet another boost. If you could see the smiles on the faces of the parents and kids you would be as touched as we have been. Our next clinic visit will be in Kiev.Big change in route plans as we now have horses mouth news of roads in western Mongolia (from a Mongolian geologist whom we stopped to ask directions to exit from Sainshand) - presently terrible with very deep ruts which we simply cannot manage. So we will repeat more of our 2007 route, and exit nothern Mongolia to go to Irkutsk, Krasnoyarsk, Tomsk, then onto original planned route at Novosivbirsk. Russian roads pretty terrible and drunk drivers very common, but at least the cars will not get so shaken about, and we have no more steering spares!
PS No wonder the Pope has Swiss guards. They are made of stern stuff the Swiss, and watching Carmen drive on and on, hour after hour is something to behold. She and Myrtle are quite a team. I am still trying to understand Kotka and our relationship is a bit fraught.
Best wishes
Kip n Carmen. Myrtle and Kotka
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