So the story begins. The trip from The Exhibition to Heathrow couldn't have been easier thanks to our chauffeur Charlie in his white fiat punto. Once Paul had been frisked, had his bag searched and his deodorant confiscated we, somewhat predictably found a bar. Next stop Delhi.

We have a couple of weeks to go now before we head off to Nepal and the fundraising for Macmillan Cancer Support is going well as is the training, thanks to Marcus at Inner Sanctum Training. We have had a few press releases in the My Friend magazine, The Hunts Post newspaper and on their website. There is still time to donate, please go to www.justgiving.com/theex