We had another leisurely start to the day, me watching F1 while Jon had a sleep in. I had a quick visit to the entrance station to pay our fee, no issues there. My throat was still giving me trouble, but after having a good coughing session and some warm oats, I was feeling alright….

Jon had a big sleep in while I did some writing with the company of a hummingbird buzzing in my ear and around my bike. After initially thinking I was on the up, I feared my sore throat was getting worse as I coughed and spluttered away. Once I was done with my blog, I…

Another day when it didn’t matter when we woke up. It was a little windy at camp, which we still had all to ourselves, besides a truck who pulled in for a rest as we were eating breakfast. I made oats to sooth our throats that were still feeling a bit poorly. Jon was near…

No more water rations so we had oats for breakfast. My cold had taken a turn for the worst so I was on rest duty while Jon attempted oats making with my instruction. He did ok but he didn’t quite time it right, resulting in luke warm oats. They were still yummy. Paul wandered over…

Thanks to our late night, we slept in until nearly 9am. Even with the side door open, the van was hotting up. We both still felt pretty average so didn’t have any climbing on the agenda for the morning, instead starting our day off with nothing much at all. We definitely had to head into…

I was surprised when I woke up to find a huge lump in my throat. We’d gotten it completely wrong it seems. Jon must have caught a cold on the plane coming over and now I’d got it. Bugger. Worse still, Jon wasn’t feeling any better, in fact he’d gone the other way. Not the…

We both woke up early with the sun, around 7am, and were ready to go. Having just cereal for breakfast, we broke down camp pretty quickly and were on the road soon after we’d gotten up. I didn’t last long behind the wheel, my lethargy continuing on from yesterday for no apparent reason since I’d…

Jon managed to sleep most of the way through the night, but he was awake when I crept into the bathroom at around 7am. We both went back to bed for another hour or so then properly woke up. I had a shower, but then we all decided to go down to the heated pool….

Dan awoke roughly, but in much better shape than the previous night. At around 2am, he was sure it was still early in the night and it took a bit of persuasion to convince him that it was actually a ridiculous time of morning. He eventually crawled back into bed after doing his routine search…

My body had obviously adjusted to the few hours of sleep I’d been having over the past few days, getting me up at around 6am. I was awake and we’d wanted to get going early to avoid traffic as much as possible so I got up. On the way to the bathroom, I noticed a…