19-8. IMPATIENT WAITING

It has become summer again after days of rain and icy cold. At the river-boat pier we found a table and had a cup of coffee. We shop for our meals at a tiny supermarket next door to our house. Then we sit in Svetlana's kitchen and eat bread with cheese and salami. The window opens to the South and we can get internet-connection on our satellite-terminal and mail home the day's blog. If we are lucky we get our adult children on-line, and Soeren in Denmark. Today we track the parcel - it is now in Moscow waiting transfer to Irkutsk. We would never have managed all the challenges of the tour without our satellite-link - and not to forget the air-time from Inmarsat. Every word and every photo have been on a visit in space on the Inmarsat satellite before landing on this home-page. Fascinating!

Nina