I managed to sleep a bit later this morning but by 0730 I was well and truly ready for breakfast. Turned out so was Kevin who was already in the restaurant, and Mateo who turned up a few minutes after…
The beginning of the end
Although there was no rush to be moving this morning after over two months of being up at (or before) 0530 pretty much all of us were at breakfast by the appointed 0700 – Australian Kevin and I had even…
Our final day (Stage 57 of 57)
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…
Bus day round Abidjan
huge thunder storm at 0100 with torrential rain (luckily I’d put my fly on before going to bed) late start with breakfast at 0730 – packed lunches for the bus journey for some strange reason Dominic decided he wanted to…
Back to the beach (Stage 54)
pretty good night’s sleep, with hardly any noise and no neighbours backtrack to busy town on my own Canadian Kevin caught me, then David and Eleanor – stayed ‘on the train’ till around 55km when I needed to eat (they…
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.…