Bucket man had a slow day today, a mere 92 miles covered in his journey to get to Cincruenigo. He is tired, he is hopeless at getting out of cities, it took him hours to get out of Pamplona after getting into a huge muddle somehow. At 3pm he had only achieved 30 miles for the day so had a massive effort ahead of him to increase his daily mileage.
Martin's Mantra - Be late!
Since you didn't believe me, this mornings little hill with velo, so no, not off internet!
As always, he had problems, today it was a puncture, no, not so much a puncture as a dead tyre. Remember all that nonsense with too many psi we had a yesterday (or was it days ago, we are losing track), well, the outcome was that the tyre was quite fed up with too many psi so showed it’s displeasure by blowing a hole in it’s side wall. Martin had some little story to entertain you, the filler as it were, anyway, he was trying to dry some shorts he had washed, (not any old shorts, these were Assos bib shorts – whatever they are) on the bike. They were flapping behind him as descended a hill, but somehow got caught in the rear wheel and became a new brake. We were interested to know what colour the shorts were, hoping for some interesting fact in this anecdote but sadly they were black, not ebony black, or crow black, just black. We do have a couple of new photos but can’t share them with them with you until we return to base on Sunday and find the magic lead.
The big blow out meant a new tyre was needed and it cost a whopping 52 Euros, why? My car tyres almost cost less than that…
So after a hard day the little man is not feeling especially good, he phoned in his report at 9pm with a weary tone, but was obviously in a very lively bar, the background noise was very loud and Spanish, perhaps they were enjoying tapas!
Canal sub blog: Lazy day in the sun, a mere 12 locks, quite a few miles, now moored up in rustic bliss on Llangollen canal. Crew member Cadbury celebrated her 9th birthday so we glugged a bottle of Yellow Tail Shiraz to wish her Happy Birthday. We leave the boat tomorrow to travel down to deepest Somerset to look at a potential new home but hope to be back in full reporting mode by Sunday night, we can’t wait to have internet access on tap!
No wonder it's bloody windy!
Canal sub blog: Lazy day in the sun, a mere 12 locks, quite a few miles, now moored up in rustic bliss on Llangollen canal. Crew member Cadbury celebrated her 9th birthday so we glugged a bottle of Yellow Tail Shiraz to wish her Happy Birthday. We leave the boat tomorrow to travel down to deepest Somerset to look at a potential new home but hope to be back in full reporting mode by Sunday night, we can’t wait to have internet access on tap!
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