There are moments on this sort of trip when you ponder on what your friends say and wonder what the hell you are doing here. We all had that ponder yesterday - after designing the itinerary,we seem to be on some sort of reccy for the guy who sent us here. Ali was upset about the state of the place we stayed last night (I got no sleep but they do scrummy omelettes) and after the amount of soldiers, police, UN forces and camps etc we were expecting to be ambushed a...

A welcome change of diet today - more chicken but this time with flies. Kaye had a bowl of chickens feet which looked like babies hands. The chilli sauce is always scrummy though and disguises undercooked meat and the millions of flies you ingest at the same time. Think of the weight I'll lose! No Hairy Dieters for ME when I get back. We have been travelling with a long UN convoy. We asked Ali where they were going and the answer was 'west'. But we are goin...