6hours to cross the Mauritania/Senegal border yesterday, leaving us to sleep in very rough accommodation! On the way again now and 550km to cover with one car reduced to "very slow" (although it IS still going).

We met a consultant surgeon from Hammersmith (a few days ago) along with 500 Europeans on the B2 rally as well as some locals and some ex-pats who were extremely helpful... Unfortunately, we found out that the Festival of the Desert was held north of Timbuktu 2weeks ago!

We have now completed the distribution of the mosquito nets and most of the other supplies to the NGO's but we still have some medicines and medical supplies to get to Mali.

Thank you to all those who sent messages of support following the news paper articles last week. In our opinion that last article was unbalanced, insensitive and, considering that the journalist wrote such a supportive article the day before, a might irresponsible itself! After all, we are a group of extremely risk averse individuals who are taking professional advice and regularly monitoring both the security and political situations.