So this isn’t a cycling post, but I wanted somewhere to share the photos from our trip to Ethiopia and this seemed like the best place. The trip was in honour of my turning 50 with the primary objective of…
Taking it easy (Stage 53)
All the usual commotion in the night, with the soccer teams returning and yahooing round for ages and then the music in town cranking up and playing through till dawn, so as is often the way in West Africa not…
Much improved!
A quick update to let you know that I’m much improved today. Yesterday, our rest day in Yamoussoukro, I ended up quite a bit worse so it was back to the gastro antibiotics (to give me a total of three…
Ugh! (Stage 51)
It’s amazing what a difference 24 hours can make – yesterday before lunch I was comfortably cruising along at around 30km/h chatting with people as I went and having a great day out. This morning I was struggling to average…
The big five oh (Stage 50)
While we were waiting for dinner last night the lightening started, then the thunder and finally the rain came – in bucket loads! Which given that there was no water in the taps at the hotel was something of an…
Cote d’Ivoire bound (Stage 48)
One of the worst nights sleep in a long time – just was I was going to sleep I woke with a start and realised I was going to throw up, the only thing I had control over was getting…
A full day of tarmac (Stage 46)
Wow was I glad I had my sleeping bag last night. It was nine degrees in my tent this morning – possibly the coldest night of the tour, or at least very close! The dew was also amazing – over…
Beating all the trucks everywhere (Stage 45)
Unlike yesterday which went entirely to plan, just on a very long timeframe, today didn’t really work out on any scale other than everyone ended up in the right place! At riders’ meeting last night Max had said that the…
Bribing my way out of Sierra Leone (Stage 44)
Last nights ‘carols’ turned out to be enthusiastic noise with little melody, but it was entertaining for a time. Despite being half under the tree my tent was wet this morning, and everything inside felt damp. It was also cooler…
Road to recovery (Stage 43)
Just a quick post to say that today’s been a great day, and despite a minor interaction with the pavement I’ve felt the most human I’ve been since the day before we came into Freetown. Not having my phone is…