Saturday 22 August It's a beautiful sunny day and we head off toward Peckham church to meet up with Kahli and Trevor. They beat us. We catch the of the sabbath school. There is a baby dedication as well as a guest speaker (dr chidi) from running a health campaign. The message is on forgiveness. 'Bitter or better'. It's about 1pm when we get out. It's a friendly church and a few ppl talk to us. There is a church lunch, but we want to be In The cool of a park. It'...

Friday 21 August We need to get up earlier today to get breakfast - as it's pretty cheap considering and eat all you want! We are trying to get by on 2 meals. It's good for saving $$. We get to the visa place in pretty good time, and already a line. We find out we needed to have an appointment and that there are none until after we leave for Russia. Eeekk! There is a costly solution of course: a private visa company. Malcolm rings them and we head over there b...

Thursday 20 August Didn't get heaps of good sleep. There was no one in the room when we got there but it was obvious two girls had the other beds. They came in some time in the night or morning. It's about 10 by the time I get up. Malcolm is just having breakfast and we go off to find an Internet cafe to print off some documents. We print our documents and head to the Mongolian consulate. We are 8min too late for the visa office. We talk to the man at the office...

Wednesday 19th August Even early in the morning it's very hot and muggy. After getting up early and traveling through the heat and 3 busses later we get to the airport and check in. We eat some breakfast and go through security. We accidentally sit at the wrong gate, but thankfully we knew the boarding time and checked our passes! The flight feels significantly empty. Lots of empty seats. It's a boring flight thankfully. It's a bit odd leaving at 9 am and arri...

Tuesday 18 August We get up and head into the city. The train in is so so full. It's crushed standing room. Have never seen them this full. Another train wasn't going, so it was like two trains full. Plus pick ups along the way. It's a relief to get off. It's hot enough without being crushed up against hot ppl. We spend the day visiting the city parks and the library. The parks are very popular spots. At the first park, Washington square park, there is a stall a...