Early on sunday morning Hinrich Paulsen left Bonn to travel to Mongolia. First by train to Düsseldorf airport and from there with Aeroflot via Moscow to Ulaanbaatar. In Düsseldorf the colleagues from Heidelberg University joined the trip after having shipped a weather station (34 kg) and two batteries (each weighing 11 kg) and having had to pay lots for the extra weight. Right now (Sunday 1600 h) we are waiting for the connecting flight which is due to leave in 2 hours time.