I didn’t sleep so well last night – I seemed to be dreaming a lot (no idea what about) but it was keeping me from getting some decent sleep – maybe just excited about having my bike and being able…
I can see the sea (stage 114)
It wasn’t so cold over night, but everything was really damp in the morning – even stuff inside my tent – so getting clothes on felt somewhat uncomfortable. Taking down my tent and it was also really wet – I’d…
The final countdown’s begun (stage 113)
Awake too early this morning thanks to what sounded like a gunshot at 0408 after which the street lights shining through the window, the noise of the traffic, and the increasing movement of others round the hotel prevented me from…
Another big climb! (stage 111)
A cold but clear morning today and despite the fact that we could have slept in later (breakfast wasn’t till 0630) there was a chap outside the window letting us know it was time for morning prayers at 0530 so…
Now we’re getting somewhere (stage 108)
I’ve taken to being the last person to leave, or at least one of the last. It doesn’t seem to make that much difference to how long it takes me to get into camp but it does mean it’s just…
Another day of climbing (stage 106)
In summary wet overnight, cold in the morning, but dry as we packed up hung out at camp and was last to leave hills – lots of hills – big steep, slippery hills lunch was super early at only 64…
Climbing, climbing, climbing (stage 105)
The Reader’s Digest Condensed version out of town on a pretty rough road thankfully no rain big climb up a dam following a pretty cool river valley lunch in a chilly but picturesque spot out of the gorge onto a…
The advantage of up, is down! (stage 103)
Despite our drinking session yesterday I wasn’t feeling too bad this morning – at least not from that. We’ve been behaving like adults for the last few days and staying up to a reasonable hour which meant it was gone…
Leaving Tabriz (stage 98)
We were moving earlier than planned this morning – it seems that I’m now programmed to wake up at 0500 and despite the fact that I didn’t need to this morning I still did. I dozed through till 0615, then…
The endless valley (stage 96)
Never mind death by a thousand paper-cuts, the middle of today felt like death by an endless 1% climb – in the end we spent 95km climbing gradually through the same valley which was starting to send me slightly crazy…