That is quite foul!!!! i don’t believe a word of it and i hope you are still gluging away!!!
the glacier was much fun. i did enquire about hamish, julio having been so complimentary about his skills as a guide but he was otherwise occupied with a half day group while we went for the day tour!!! after donning soggy boots and a classy gortex coat we set off in the bus with boot grips and an ice axe – this icidently was the most useless thing in the world. you had to hold it all the time in one hand and therefpre only had one to grab onto thew icy surfaces with, and it nearly tripped me up a dozen times, almost chucking me into the blue crevices serounding us!!! i would have chucked it from me accept for the fact that all equipment had to be payed for!!! it was, as jul’s e-mail suf\gested, a day of blue ice, crevices, holes caves, cold water and a guide called blair with about as many piercings as one could have – however, as i get fed to the back teeth of writing a long mail to you and then the same thing in the generakl mail about the same thing, i will go to and start y general.

the only reason i havn’t texted recentyly is that there has been no reception in the hills. in wanaka at the moment and then on to queenstaown to collect my bevie of mail and the on south!
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