The photo below is of keen important to just about everyone – by that I mean long distance cycle tourists. Clearly the importance is obvious.

Okay, I’ll explain. Mark and Gideon are riding to Croatia, and I’m riding north – wait for it – we’re all riding Thorn Nomads from Bridgewater in Somerset’ except they’re on generation 2 and I’m on a generation 1 ( it’s the one hiding in the back – without a side car). I was envious.

This next photo is of the Debbie Mayo-Smith IT HelpDesk.

This takes outsourcing to extremes. But the hourly rates are very good and it only took 11/2 hours to fix Debbie’s laptop using an ipad, wifi, Viber and Teamviewer from my tent.

I gather than the Giro d’Italia riders rode here and hated it, so did I.

Why? The unrelenting wind. It wears you down like sandpaper, grabbing at your clothes, your panniers, anything it can get hold of to drag you backwards and constantly assaults your ears. This 8.5k section took an hour to do. A hour of staring off into the distance that never got closer.

Mark and Gideon are probably in Croatia by now – given the wind.
Oh well, tomorrow’s another day with a similar wind forecast, I think I’ll modify my plans slightly.