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Lighting out for the territory nce more in the Middle East. The more I travel the more I want to travel and the longer that I am out of England the happier I am. At present in Iraq and having a wonderful time. really fallen in love with the country and the people. Very glad I came and

Sun 16th Nov - Lhatse

CHINA | Sunday, 16 November 2008 | Views [374]

We have done three passes - all festooned with prayer flags, the last one at 5,200 metres and I am not dead yet. Jon, who is a Tibetan Buddhist, has a headache; Devin is fine; I have a cough but then I had a cough before I got here.

On the road we stop for lunch in trad restaurant and have momos and I fall in love with a 2 or 3 year old cardsharp.

The landscape is desert and plateau. Everest, open toilet (which means find a rock) beautiful Tibetan man and dead bicycle, the occasional cigarette, Pema singing, falling asleep.

We stop in biggish town and I buy wonderful T. jacket for 85 yuan (8 pounds) I meet Gandi from Denmark, buy spoon, get hot water from lady and invited to sit by her stove. Yak dung stoves give off a tremendous heat and the locals sleep in the same room as stove. Lucky. On Beijing time now so teeth and bed.

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