Kit list
Not wanting the hassle at the airport, I packed the most
sensible suitcase ever, which consisted of:
5 Ccotton shirts (2 short sleeves) (essential) 6 vest tops(essential) 6 pairs of socks 3 sport (essential)3 pairs of walking socks (essential) 1 body warmer (essential) 1 down feather compact coat (necessary) 1 waterproof coat with trousers (essential) 1 Pair of walking boots (essential) 1 pair of walking shoes (necessary) 1 pair of Birkenstocks (necessary) 1 pair of flip-flops (necessary)
We flew Air France/KLM and the flights came in at £980 from
Heathrow to Lima via Charles de Gaulle. The trip took well over 13 hours door
to door. We flew cattle class, but surprisingly it was very comfortable and the
food was good. We left the UK at 0730 a.m. and arrived in our hotel in Lima at 8
p.m.
The travel was exhausting mostly because I hadn’t been
sleeping properly for days prior to our departure. I would wake up in the middle of the night in a panic
about the trek and with major concerns about my fitness. My knees had begun to
ache, so I stopped going to the gym for fear of injury. By the time we arrived
I had worked myself into a right old state and was fit for nothing and headed
straight to bed.
We woke up the next morning absolutely starving. I, for one,
was delighted at the prospect of a breakfast buffet; over the years I have
learnt how to work a buffet, and the key for me is speed. It takes 15 minutes
for my body to realise it's full, so as long as I got as much down before this
message left my stomach to my brain I was ready to overindulge! There is a
reason behind this madness: I had lost all the weight I had put on beforehand, and
there were concerns I wouldn’t have enough energy in reserve to cope with the
trek and any little illnesses that might come along.
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