Friday 6th June We awoke to fine weather and warm sunshine but the day started frustratingly when we decided to send some parcels of souvenirs, presents, booklets, etc. home. The post office gent shook his head when we showed him the 10kg box we wanted to send back to Australia. After a rather long-winded conversation he explained that sending 5 x 2kg packages would be much cheaper than sending a single 10kg package. (Don't ask me why, and he couldn't explain why either.) As a result we unpacked the box we had carefully filled the night before, bought 5 large padded postage bags and, using his scales, put just under 2kg in each one. By the time we had finished all the re-packaging and filled out all the documentation for each individual parcel the morning was
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