It is official – we are in the middle of the hottest September days on record. Yipee (?) So glad that we humans have had nothing to do with this. Back in the hothouse yesterday started with me walking around the garden just watching the sun rise and snapping the odd photo.

Then it was off into the blistering heat, look I’m an old man from England so temperatures around 30 c is way too hot for my liking, with my heavy camera gear. This proved to be too much for the weather conditions and I ended up using my iPhone. The plan was to bag more villages with my good friend David for the Gartree – Explored project. We sort off did this but the heat was getting too much.

In the end we had to retired to a local pub. The cool Heineken, it wasn’t quite Ice Cold in Alex but was very refreshing all the same. After lunch many things happened which were not planned but we eventually found our way back to base. All in all the day wasn’t as planned. Such is life.