Once I finally managed to get to sleep, I actually slept pretty well, but woke up still hot and sweaty so it’s going to be damp kind of day! Pancakes for breakfast as a final-day treat, then for the faster…
The penultimate day (Stage 56)
no rain last night, but a nice breeze which helped with the heat set off on my own, but hooked up with Kim and Canadian Kevin, before the David train came through and we jumped on the back of that…
Riding the beach – take two (Stage 55)
another thunder storm and downpour over night – glad all the rain is coming while we sleep off our island at 0600, hotel breakfast, made a packed lunch, set off at 0715 end of the spit – bikes on one…
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…
Capital connection (Stage 52)
It wasn’t as quiet as I’d expected last night – there was some sort of highly-amplified happy-clappy church service going on somewhere through the bushes which last from 2200 to 0200 which rather detracted from the seemingly quiet rural location.…
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…
Day seven of seven – phew! (Stage 49)
Back to Plan A which is that we’re going to be staying at the hotel which all sounds vastly superior to me! It also means I don’t have to worry about navigation because the gpx track I have on my…
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…