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Matthew

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Hello from China
« on: July 01, 2012 »
Just a heads up to say we all arrived safe and well. 24 hours of travel has me broke. Currently staying at the traffic inn hostel in Cheng du for two nights then off to the project phase of the expedition.

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Re: Hello from China
« Reply #1 on: July 01, 2012 »
Best of luck  :)
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Re: Hello from China
« Reply #2 on: July 02, 2012 »
Seen you in Cotswolds the other day when I was buying my harness.  Seen you looking over thinking 'I know him from somewhere'.  Best of luck though!  Plenty of pictures though please. 
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Re: Hello from China
« Reply #3 on: July 02, 2012 »
Enjoy the trip, you need to with that sort of travel times!
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Re: Hello from China
« Reply #4 on: July 02, 2012 »
Quote from: Pudd on July 02, 2012
Seen you in Cotswolds the other day when I was buying my harness.  Seen you looking over thinking 'I know him from somewhere'.  Best of luck though!  Plenty of pictures though please. 

That's exactly it chum, was not sure where I knew you from. Now I know.
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Enjoy the trip, you need to with that sort of travel times!

We left Belfast at 130 and arrived here at close to 200 uk time.
Flight to heathrow, left heathrow at 930 ish arrived Abu Dhabi 6 odd hours. 7 hours to china with a 50 min window to clear security etc in Abu Dhabi was no fun.
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Best of luck  :)
Thanks a million.

I'll try and send wee updates when I can. Well off to breakfast here. Admin day comming up. Need to get 10,000 us dollars changed for group money and sort out tomorrow's transport to our project. Dinner tonight is hot pot, random cuts of meat which you cook in a pot of hot spicy liquid. The menu includes duck tongue, pig intestine, pork balls as in balls balls, pork brain and thankfully American style beef.
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Re: Hello from China
« Reply #5 on: July 02, 2012 »
Have a good time Matt, take care.
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Re: Hello from China
« Reply #6 on: July 02, 2012 »
Safe trip and have fun.
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Re: Hello from China
« Reply #7 on: July 02, 2012 »
Cheers guys. Another day over and everything sorted, kit washed and everything charged or charging.

It's the project tomorrow for six days so I'll get back on when I get Internet access again. All kit working perfectly, power monkey never fails to impress and the waterproofs are being well tested. Well done to rab's repair facility. Mountain hard wear bag Woking a treat too.
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Re: Hello from China
« Reply #8 on: July 02, 2012 »
When I Google Cheng Du I get a Chinese takeaway in Leicestershire, did you definitely get on the right plane :P

Keep us posted if you can and have a great time!
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Re: Hello from China
« Reply #9 on: July 03, 2012 »
Hey Matt I bumped into your mum, she says you left these behind.



From here
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Re: Hello from China
« Reply #10 on: July 03, 2012 »
Ultralight conductors batons. I suppose you never know when you might be called upon to lead an orchestra on a mountain  ::)

Quote from: whoRya on July 03, 2012
Hey Matt I bumped into your mum, she says you left these behind.



From here
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Re: Hello from China
« Reply #11 on: July 03, 2012 »
So jealous!

I also seen you in Cotswold with Pudd :)

Have an awesome time!

Lisa
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Re: Hello from China
« Reply #12 on: July 08, 2012 »
Thanks guys.

Jonno I saw those chopsticks and got them for a birthday present for the other teacher I'm away with. I'm positively native with them
Now lol.

Just back from our project phase and well tired. We were there to make a hut for a family but the local village mayor shut us down. We ended up teaching and farming with allot of hanging around.

Accommodation was far from ideal very very basic an the toilets were dry compost type affairs. Not great. I opted for the tend a comfy alternative.

Food was ok lots an lots of spicy vegetables pigs ear and tail was the only meat we had.

Spent the day looking in computer hyper markets and milling round the city looking at fake north face kit  and Rab perte yes perte not pertex kit lol.

Dinner consisted of pigs feet and chickens feet in spicy sauce, I'm not joking here. Very very tasty. The boys went elsewhere an played meal bingo, ending up with rats head, eyes and the delicacy rats tongue. Not messing photos to prove it!

Tomorrow is more shopping then food shopping for the acclimatisation trek. 3500mts straight up, fun times. That should take three - four days.

Matthew. 
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Re: Hello from China
« Reply #13 on: July 08, 2012 »
Pork balls?? Bet you that's not the first time
You've had balls in your mouth lol
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Re: Hello from China
« Reply #14 on: July 09, 2012 »
Ha ha very good. I can confirm, however, no balls haver ever passed my mouth lol.
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