My new travelling companion arrives. Am very pleased with my 80-litre Lowe Alpine Sagarmatha; it seems sturdy and has lots of pockets, which is essential for someone who carries as much crap on the road as I do.
Take Christine on a tour of Trinity college (being the offspring of a professor has its advantages when the place is technically closed to visitors), and then on a punting tour. Unsucessful search for a Tamron multi-purpose lens for my Canon Rebel; the used camera shop stocks a beautiful used Canon lens (17-85mm), which'd be perfect, but it's still £300.
Manage to get a little Peru mapwork done before a friend turns up for tea and before I head out to see an old friend. Express my desire to delve deeper into my family's history while in Russia, tracing my grandfather's case, who was denounced as an 'enemy of the people' and imprisoned - an episode which almost spelled the end of my family - and am given a couple of vital leads to follow up. I shall attempt to track down the Kings College expert on that period of Russian history and try to at least find out which archive the case could be in.
My Ulan Bator-Beijing ticket will be waiting for me at some office in Ulan Bator.
Email from the commissioning editor for the Rough Guide Budget Guide to Central America: I was a stand-by, but now he's got authors covering every chapter. Better luck next time. Still need to arrange my mentoring session with a senior Lonely Planet writer via Skype.
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