Off to C?d'Ivoire on Monday

It's finally all falling into place. Unless there are any last minute hitches I'll be flying off on Monday afternoon to Amsterdam, and from there out to Abidjan on Wednesday (via Paris CDG I expect). After a briefing at MSF-H's base in Abidjan I'll go out to do logistics work at the hospital they are running in Danan?which is right over on the west side of the country, near the Liberian border. When in Abidjan I'll have dial-up internet access, but that will be only once every six weeks. Most of the time I'll only have access through an expensive satellite phone, so any email will have to be kept as small as possible - no attachments, no large disclaimer blocks, no HTML. I'll send out the address for this service once I'm out there. This means that subscribing to the maillist will probably best way to get up to date information, since posting stuff to the blog will be much harder. If you want to know how to subscibe to the mail list, email me or someone who knows me well! Mail apparently gets through to the field from the Abidjan about once per week. You can send stuff via Holland at P.O Box 10014, 1001 EA Amsterdam, NL or directly to MSFH, 11 B.P. 2656, Abidjan, C?d'Ivoire. So this weekend I'm rushing around saying bye to people, but it's only six months, so I'll probably be back before you've noticed I've gone!