Now the hard work starts, and some mountain porn...

I received an email from Sharon this morning, she's made it to Tanzania after some fun at the airport (BA ran out of visa forms for Kenya combined with massive queues = much enjoyment for all) and is off to climb the mountain.

"Minor hiccup with the flight from Nairobi to Kili, but the Ausie boys checking in next to me where onto the case. So we spoken to a Kenyan Airways manager and he spoke to someone a Precision Airways and the little plane they had been sending got upgraded to a bigger plane (40 to 78 seat) and the 28 people who were due to be bumped onto the later flight got on too..... wasn't too keen to spend an afternoon in Nairobi, even if it was going to be in a 'nice' hotel.

Arrived yesterday afternoon and it was noticeably hotter here than in Nairobi - low thirties..... have drunk about six million bottles of water since then and (almost) wishing for the cooler climes of Scotland. Is it still raining?

Anyway tomorrow we start our trek up the mountain. Met the other folk on the trip with me, there are 12 of us in total, all from the UK, good mix of ages too. Six of the trekkers went up Mt Meru first and said it was hard going, but I am hopefully that if we take it slowly, but surely I will make it to the summit.

Must go Kili is showing off her top!

Love to all

Sharon"