After the most relaxing and low-key day Ed and I have enjoyed for the last 8 weeks, disaster struck. We were walking back in from a dusty game of football with local kids when we got the message that the Grain Media boys, the crew who are accompanying us to both marathons, making a documentary, filming news footage and so forth, were stuck in Algiers customs where officials clamed they did not have the right papers for all their equipment which would as a result have to be left behind. Our world seemed to cave in. A frantic incredibly stressful 3 hours then ensued, with every organiser, Saharawi official and the embassy of the Saharawi in Algiers all involved…but to no avail. They had to leave the stuff behind. Thankfully they were quick of mind, had brought 4 cameras with them, and we were able to sneak through with two of their cameras. No huge loss, but a stressful night that an already exhausted Ed and myself could have done without!