So, back to the UK and to the next stage. we have sent our rather soft report off to maternity World Wide and look forward to feed back. In the mean time we have started looking at the next stage which includes the nightmare bureocracy of car importation. The most helpful has been from an import agency whose basic advice is don't based on the difficulties of it sitting in some dock side in Djibouti collecting storage charges. carnets count for nought and the British Embassy have not rushed back with advice yet-but we will get there. there are also issues about bringing in useful bits and pieces for the hospital-lots of gift certificates etc will be required. How about trying to source a left hand drive land cruiser with English number plates to import..Thought we had found one but it looked v. dodgy with no paper work french number plated and the suggestion that the front and back were not the same. for those of you wanting Land Cruisers for overland avoid English sounding second hand dealers in West Yorkshire whose sales force answer to Mohammed. Worryingly the sales site had a pit to take cars off lorries from the continent. Boring because it is going to take for ever to get the paper work in order but finding the right vehicle is also problematic. Now coming accross internet sites that specialise in being tantalising but keeping you apart from the vendor. Now using european contacts (and very grateful) to try a nd source a suitable truck as they are called in the venacular for us. Three cheers for Greg from Landcruisers overland for all his help. Will shortly have to write to Gimbie to set out what we require-letters etc and to get some more info for our paper-Hazel is getting hard to work cracking this so may become all very interesting-watch this space..
Jeremy
