2002-2005 (c) GetJealous.com, All rights reserved. http://www.getjealous.com/pugwonk/rss.xml Enough banking, time for a big holiday. We're driving around the UK for a couple of weeks living in a caravan, then from 1st May to 25th June we're travelling from Calais to Athens, no doubt having uproarious adventures. I'm climbing in China for the whole of July, then we're getting married on the 9th of September in Crete. After that we're relocating to Washington state, USA. If you want the long story, you'll have to read the whole thing. I bet you're at work anyway. http://www.getjealous.com/pugwonk http://www.getjealous.com/travel-blog/diary/pugwonk/212820 Seems a shame not to round this off, so here it is. This is the end of the blog. I've had a great time writing it, but I think there's a point at which you have to accept that people aren't going to be too interested in "got up, went to work again" blog entries. If you've become addicted to travel blogs you might want to read our friend Sarah's round-the-world blog - http://www.ian-and-sarah.com/R... http://www.getjealous.com/travel-blog/diary/pugwonk/212820 Tue, 31 Oct 2006 12:00:00 GMT http://www.getjealous.com/travel-blog/diary/pugwonk/197756 The sharp-eyed among you will notice that it's not traditional to have a stag do after the wedding. Fear not. The stag do was before the wedding, but the writeup is after. If I put in the correct dates, it would never appear on the front page of the blog thing. Both of my eager fans have asked me when the stag do writeup was going to appear here, so I thought I'd better write one. All the weddi... http://www.getjealous.com/travel-blog/diary/pugwonk/197756 Tue, 19 Sep 2006 12:00:00 GMT http://www.getjealous.com/travel-blog/diary/pugwonk/195134 Where we'd ended up with Phil, it seemed, was what came to be known as "camp 1.5", at around 5750m. Chatting back in BC, it seemed that a lot of the Summit Climb people had also failed to make C2, so there was a good deal of talk about making a potential camp one-and-a-half just above where I stopped to evacuate my stomach. The news that other people were having trouble was obviously rather cheeri... http://www.getjealous.com/travel-blog/diary/pugwonk/195134 Mon, 18 Sep 2006 12:00:00 GMT http://www.getjealous.com/travel-blog/diary/pugwonk/194213 I was young free and single when I wrote part two, and I'm married now - this has involved a lot of organisational headache so please excuse me if I cover ground I've already been over.Here goes with the climbing. The hike from base camp to camp one was on a rubble-covered scree slope, in a fair amount of heat even for people who've been living in Greece for a month. T-shirt and shorts type weat... http://www.getjealous.com/travel-blog/diary/pugwonk/194213 Sat, 16 Sep 2006 12:00:00 GMT http://www.getjealous.com/travel-blog/diary/pugwonk/192027 Sorry for the brief interruption to the Mustagh Ata tomes. This was caused by my wedding, which took place yesterday near Chania, Crete. Many thanks to all those who came along - we thought it went jolly well. For those who couldn't make it, I've posted some photos up. They were taken by my brother Tony and my now sister-in-law Eleftheria. I might write some more blog entries about it, but they... http://www.getjealous.com/travel-blog/diary/pugwonk/192027 Sun, 10 Sep 2006 12:00:00 GMT http://www.getjealous.com/travel-blog/diary/pugwonk/186187 Now we did some mountaineering stuff. After another evening of Beer Acclimatisation at 1500m, we all hopped onto two buses. "All" actually involved quite a few of us. There were only three people on the Mountain Madness trip I'd signed up for (http://www.mountainmadness.com/asia/mustaghata.cfm) but climbing at the same time as us, and sharing a great deal of hardware and porterage, were a group of... http://www.getjealous.com/travel-blog/diary/pugwonk/186187 Fri, 25 Aug 2006 12:00:00 GMT http://www.getjealous.com/travel-blog/diary/pugwonk/185589 It's taken me a few weeks to collect my thoughts about this. They say that people who've been to war come back somewhat unable to talk about the event as it's so different to everyday life, and I feel strangely similar about China. So far all I've managed to come up with when people say "so, tell me about China" is the fact that car insurance isn't manditory there. One notable exception to these p... http://www.getjealous.com/travel-blog/diary/pugwonk/185589 Thu, 24 Aug 2006 12:00:00 GMT http://www.getjealous.com/travel-blog/diary/pugwonk/176137 Me again. I'm going to write a proper report on the Mustagh Ata trip, but in the meantime I do at least have some photos. The pictures are at http://chrisrae.com/album/ma2006. There are 170 of them, but console yourself with the fact that I cut them down from an original set of 700. For the more dweeby among us, I recorded my heart rate and GPS path - I did a writeup of this at http://forums.motio... http://www.getjealous.com/travel-blog/diary/pugwonk/176137 Fri, 28 Jul 2006 12:00:00 GMT http://www.getjealous.com/travel-blog/diary/pugwonk/170720 I spoke to Chris a couple of times in the past few weeks, the last being a few days ago via satelite phone, as he was resting in Base Camp after a few long days going up and down from camps I and II and acclimatising... The first time we spoke, he was in Kashgar, which apparently is very interesting... They spent some time in the Sunday market, which is renowned in the area, where Chris got hi... http://www.getjealous.com/travel-blog/diary/pugwonk/170720 Thu, 13 Jul 2006 12:00:00 GMT http://www.getjealous.com/travel-blog/diary/pugwonk/165816 I've been convinced by reading the message board that I have a clamouring crowd of fans. I'm in Istanbul changing flights - I'm about to travel twice as far as I need to east (to Beijing) and then back again on another flight (to Kashgar). Right now I posess what might be the last internet connection I'll have for a while. I'll write something about the China climb near the end of July, possibl... http://www.getjealous.com/travel-blog/diary/pugwonk/165816 Wed, 28 Jun 2006 12:00:00 GMT