Went and got John and Pauline a bit late at 6.15am and then drove to Malvern, bit of a problem on the normal route because of the flooding but made a work-around and got to the car park we’re familiar with.
Followed the route over the hills that we’re familiar with knowing we had to come back the same way! It was our longest walk and was hard work - the British Camp area was interesting and a decent place to get to and walk up.We had a break for food and reached a point where we just stopped, turned around and retraced our steps!
This was hard work and I went on a real go-slow but I plodded along, it was exhausting but we did it and got back to the main entrance and walked through town to the van. the last few miles and hour or so was really quite painful and everything was hurting.
Drove to Worcester and experienced loads of problems with road closures because of the flooding and even when we got to where we wanted to the height to get in the car park foiled us! Found a multi-story and walked to the hotel right in the centre of town, nice area and looked the sort of place to return to for a day/night.
We stayed in a Travelodge and got changed - no time for a sleep as we were late getting there and then went back out into town and found Bills restaurant for dinner. It was Pauline's birthday today so it was her celebration but we were all so tired we just wanted to eat and go back to bed - only had two drinks! It was nice though.
Back to hotel and bed, aching like mad. Bit worried about cramps tonight an also in the morning - we shall see.
It was good to do this and it's going to show how hard work this is going to be on Kilimanjaro because we have the space and home comforts of the hotel and it was still hard work to get sorted - living out of a cold tent is going to be tough.
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