Off to Port an Prince again

Mrs C is posting this for me as I am doing another 48 hour round trip to Port au Prince and will not be near a computer for a while.

Earlier in the blog I mentioned the five hours we have been travelling, but in fact the whole journey lasted 9 hours!!! In the UK, you would stop off for services and even a snooze, but here the roads are just one bump after another with no break. If you look at the pictures, you can see that 9 hours in that lorry was not very comfortable. At 9pm today your time we had been going for six hours, with another three to go! At least this time we have two matresses in the back to bounce on; let's hope we don't bounce out of the back, as you can see there is not much to stop us!

Morgan, our Haitian driver, two mechanics and I have been let loose on our own to drive down to Port au Prince. We will stay overnight and come back tomorrow. I have videoed some of the journey so I will be able to share that with you when I return. We will deliver some aid and bring back two medics who will work with us at the hospital and clinic.

Carwyn has been getting good publicity for the hospital, so Mrs C tells me. On Tuesday (2/2/2010) the Sun newspaper had a picture of Carwyn holding a boy. Whilst the information printed in paper with is was mostly wrong, Mrs C tells me it was a good picture. If you remember, a bit further back in the blog I have got a picture of the point where the picture was taken. My chin is in the background apparently, as I have seen it, but Mrs C says the picture on the internet shows my face! Fame at last!!

We were also featured on London Tonight on Wednesday evening (o3/02/2010), with Carwyn doing a video diary of a typical day. It showed the ambulance being loaded at one stage, with me doing a bit of work! Again, I am relying on Mrs C for this information, as I have not seen it. Mrs C will try and post the links at the end of this to see if they can be picked up by viewers; maybe I will be able to get them too.

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/2834822/British-aid-angels-couple-drive-ambulance-in-Haiti.html

12:41 to 16:21 http://www.itv.com/london/fullprogramme/
and abbreviated at http://www.itv.com/london/haiti-video-diary15200/

Will catch up on my return - thanks for your support!