End point

Bergamo airport is really bad.

Dylan woke up this morning full of my cold, fed him and put him back in his pit. Cleaned the house. Weather bad. Much rain overnight - all roads v.wet.

Sorted the house out by half ten and drove up to cresciano. Lots of euro cars and vans in the car park, but not a soul up in the woods by the blocs. Everything soaked. Hardly a dry hold anywhere. Walked up to la boule area and looked at la proue. That foot hold is terrible. Walked back down and returned to the house to rouse dylan and pay ma stilhart. Sorted all that and left an hour ahead of schedule.

The motorways were all dead until milan and we made it to the car hire return thing in 1hr50. Sorted all that out and now waiting to board plane in 45 mins.

Its been a funny old trip. I trained specifically, fought hard, but it didn't pay off! First day at chironico dylan strained his shoulder on tomahawk and walked into a tree, I found that schule des lebens thing - got all excited and split a tip. So damn close though. Had I had someone else there to show me I really think I could have done that in a session. Never mind. Finished that day with a go on le pilier failing twice on the top jump. Next day I rested, the sun came out and it was boiling. Felt good about the world, sunning myself and reading on my pad. Ed did vol au vent. Tuesday I had filthy lurgy, but we went to chironico when I really should have stayed in. Looked at shark hunt, but had no enthusiasm for anything, did arabald and dr med dent. Next day I stopped in, dylan bust his ankle on I'll partner and ed did it. Next day dylan stopped in and I went wild at chironico. Friday we all went out to cresc but I had terrible skin. Dylan nearly did la pioche, ed did la boulette, I repeated 7b's I'd done before and did a new slab thing (new to me). Didn't do owt today.

Wished I'd not got ill and had tried shark hunt. Don't think I would have done franks or serre without armfuls of beta or a team to push me on. A catalog of errors. Great accomodation, great freeview soft porn, great company, food etc, but dogged by mishap and illness. There's definately value in going as part of a large group for collective psyche and beta. 6 out of 10 for trip as a whole. I'll be back. And would have no quarms about coming back with these two - at the very least we all got on well together. Boarding now. TTFN.