Excitedly anticipating Nerea home from Malaysia

We’re off to Heathrow this weekend to collect Nerea after a month in Malaysia.  It sounds as if she and the rest of the team have had a wonderful time in Borneo, climbing Mt Kinabalu, scuba diving, working on a rainforest protection programme, helping in a school and latterly enduring the deprivations of shopping in cosmopolitan Kuala Lumpur and Penang.  It seems as if she’s coped admirably with jungle spiders and has only had 4 leeches to deal with!! As a cultural experience, it’s been unlike anything she’s experienced before. Andy and I can’t wait to hear about her adventures.

Skype and Mt Kinabalu

My technological ability has improved so much that yesterday, Andy and I Skyped wth Nerea in Borneo.  She looked happy, fit and tanned as she told us of her experiences in the jungle and on climbing Mt Kinabalu.  We’re very proud of her and the rest of the team as the mountain is over 4000m high and looks very steep in places.  They’re off to the rain forest today so we’ll not hear from her again until she returns.  They’re planting trees to replace those destroyed through logging  with the aim of ensuring the continued survival of the Borneo orang-u-tans

Technology

Technology is a wonderful thing.  It’s meant we’ve been able to contact our globetrotting daughter from deepest, darkest Borneo via email, expedition blog and FB.  On the few occasions when the team are wi-fi enabled, there’s also the opportunity to Skype at scheduled times. We don’t have a camera or microphone on our computer so further kit and software are needed if we decide to participate.  By all accounts, Nerea’s having an amazing time, enjoying new cultural experiences with the excitement of the much anticipated rain forest adventures still to come.  From tomorrow, Deet will need to be applied liberally!

Nerea the Borneo Babe!

Nerea's off to Borneo today for a month and although I'm feeling excited for her, I'm apprehensive too. She's never been away for this length of time before and certainly never to such a remote part of the world.  We're lightweight travellers so she shouldn't be overloaded but I keep remembering things that would be useful. Knowing Nerea, the trip will develop her appetite for future travel! It's been quite a financial commitment for us but actually a small price to experience the opportunity of a lifetime.  It's left Andy and me wishing we were off travelling again too