The Brits have landed

The team caught the 8pm Pakistan International Airlines flight from Heathrow and landed in Lahore at 8.30am local time

The Lahore airport was crazy with a long queue to get through security and then another queue to get through further security. All bags and lances arrived safely, but we then joined another queue which xrayed the luggage again. Fortunately we were met at the airport and looked after very well

Lahore airport:-

From Lahore we travelled to Faisalabad, which took around 2 hours on relatively clear motorways. My first impression of Pakistan is that its is a more organised India and certainly in Lahore drivers stuck in between the white lines

However Faisalabad has some rather busier roads around the university, so the beeping when overtaking and multiple lanes of traffic kicked in due to the amount of horse and donkey drawn carts.

Once we arrived we were given 10 minutes to freshen up before a splendid lunch in the sun, where we meet the South African teams.

After lunch we visited the Vice Chancellor of the university and meet his staff and the Pakistan junior team.

Left you can see our esteemed host HRH Prince Malik Ata Muhammad Khan

It was great to formally meet our hosts in Faisalabad.

After the vice chancellor we went to the University stud farm, where we had all their key stallions paraded for us, and a few of their broodmares

The local breed in Pakistan is known as "Desi" and is a mixture of all the lines that have come to Pakistan including Marwari, thoroughbred, arab and a few other mixes. The university are breeding especially for tentpegging, so they are looking for speed, quality flashy paces and temperamental.

Michael with Tina and Gerald in the background - Tina was promptly told off by Prince Malik for wearing a headscarf!

We are now back in the hotel room, and tonight I am sharing a bed with Jacky from the team, fortunately it is massive, but still the concept of a twin room doesn't really exist!! Also my only other option is sharing with Gerald, and he definitely has a worse reputation for snoring
I've had a warm shower and feeling a bit better, but still rather like a zombie from being awake for 32 hours!