Intrepidly Intrepid

Monday 4th December 2006

Today I left the hostel to join my tour with Intrepid for a 10 day organised adventure walking through largest gorge in the world and exploring the local towns on the way. I had to navigate across the city to the “Camilla Hotel”. I was plesently surprised when I found out it was the hotel and not the hostel we were stopping in, a nice hotel with plesent rooms, kettle in the room and tea, English breakfast tea, that made me happy. I met my “roommate” Emily from Brisbane, Australia in the early afternoon then met the rest of the group later – Bora our leader from Isreal and Andrew from Brisbane, Australia too (but unconnected to Emily despite them both going to the same University) It was nice being such a small group, as there can be a maximum of 15 people on some of these organised trips. Bora seemed really relaxed which was a relief, and told us that we make decisions as a team rather than him making decisions for us – I was liking the sound of this trip already. The evening was fun getting to know each other “over the bridge” of noodles – translated this is a bowl of hot water. But there’s more to it than that, the ingredients come seperately and are cooked in the hot water. It’s all about the noodles, long and thick and quite yummy, and of course being a tight fisted northerner a bargain at 70p.