Two visits and LFX

We had visitors from EUPOL (the police organisation of the European Union). There were Hungarian, Danish and Finnish police officers in the group - not German and Swedish ones, like many times before. They had lunch and left, because the meeting they had scheduled was cancelled. Also MOT Z came over for lunch. They were in Samangan inspecting some development project sites.

In the afternoon we went to the shooting range and stayed there until darkness. When we came back we ran into an American convoy at the crossroads. It's always interesting to meet ISAF soldiers from other nations than Sweden and Finland by surprise in the field, especially in the dark. One always has to take some extra precautions in those situations in order to avoid any kind of misunderstandings. When we arrived at the safe house, I saw two geckos on the outer wall of the compound. I didn't get a closer look, but I tried to take a picture.


There was a flock of sheep at the shooting range and we stopped to talk with the shepherds.


In the distance there was a major dust whirlwind.


I didn't want to move closer than this to the gecko because it seemed very easily startled.