Monday, 19 March 2007

Packing.

It may be four days till I leave, but I started packing today. Largely to see what I still needed to buy. The golden rule for packing is supposed to be, list everything you think you will need and then cut the list by half. However I found that even with everything packed apart from my mosi-net, my suitcase is still only half full. This has left me with a feeling that I'm missing something, but cannot think what it is.

One of the oddities I've been told include is a cycling helmet, The options are between walking 10 km each way everytime I want to go into Kampala, taking the motorbike taxis or cycling. Much as I enjoy walking, 20 k is a bit much in the African heat, especially as it would be every day. On the other hand I'm really not willing to trust my life to the motorbike taxis without a motorcyle helmet and I'm not carrying one of those arround. So that leaves cycling, hopefully I'll be able to by one (or possibly several) cheaply in central Kampala, but it still worries me slightly, still it should improve my fitness no end.