Details of the challenge Part 1

So October 15th is the big day when we set of on our challenge. We depart Heathrow at 20:00 on Friday 15th (thankfully not the 13th), and fly overnight to Nairobi with Kenya Airways!!

 So Nairobi is 2 hours ahead, we arrive at 6:30 the next morning, so that is an 8.5 hour flight - ouch.

The advice is to pack the essentials for the challenge in your day sack, carry that as on board luggage and wear your boots !

8.5 hours sat in my walking boots - that is a big ouch.

On arriving in Nairobi we then have another shorter flight of around 1 hour to Kilimanjaro International airport on a small hopper plane.

Apparently due to the size of the group, there will be two of these hopper flights, so arrival could be at 09.00 or 11.30. We then transit to the hotel at Moshi where we will find out hotel.

So since we are up North, we need to add on the time to travel down to London, plus the Scope team would like us to get to Heathrow at 16:00 for some reason, so a long old travel out time. Let's hope I avoid blisters on the travelling bit !

ok so this was the boring intro, although if anyone out there has experience of Kenya airways give me a shout.

More tomorrow........

by the way, I seem to have pulled a muscle in my side at some point, don't know if Sunday or Monday, but making life interesting. I was going to try a short walk tonight but the forecast talks about thunder & lightening and very heavy rain, so will have to see what happens.