Thursday 17th June

hot hot ...we all got chewed by mosies last night, the noiseof the crickets is drowning out our radio----driving S.E. about level with South of France or Italy...stopped by police and sent another way up the motorway because of trouble in Chechnya,,,stopped 7 more times, the last stop they gave us a sausage-----6.45pm the desert has started, we camp and see a huge spider, giant millipede, crickets, locusts, and dung beetles, the latter being brilliant -- as soon as you have finished going to the toilet they are there it all disappears in no time at all!!!!!