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…
Man rest day
Not the best night’s sleep I ever had – I woke around midnight to discover I had a couple of mozzies in my tent and they’d been biting me which meant that not only did I have to find and…
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…
Actually short and actually relatively easy (Stage 47)
Not so cold as the previous night, but still cool enough to sleep as well as the noise of the village would allow – and to need my sleeping bag again. First it was bad drumming and singing from the…
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…