2 days to go - Doping already!

Great - I've spent much of this week in bed with a gunky throat infection after a rainy English summer party (lovely though it was, r+p). I sounded like a pubescent Marlon Brando a day or two ago - squeaking and growling involuntarily, but fortunately the Neukölln euqivalent of Dr. Fuentes has given me some excellent performance enhancing drugs and promises I'll be fit for the start of the tour. No doubt Tina is already relishing the thought of being team leader, pacemaker and cautionary nurse to her feeble boyfriend during the first few days.


We picked up our bikes from Eckbert's shop today: http://www.ostrad.de/. Both of us have splashed out on new bits and pieces. Tina now has her own water bottle, some extension thingies for her handlebars and some neat blue bags, like this one.

Let's hope they're big enough for all those girlie things...

I was given a fancy new bike computer for my birthday - including a cadence function (showing how fast my feet are actually moving around), which I discovered on Wendy's bike in Tasmania and really enjoyed - Thanks Wendy. And thanks to everyone who contributed to Tina's and my bike accessories this year - we will put all the stuff to good use.

So we're all set to leave, well almost. I still need to do my tax for this quarter and get all that green stuff out of my throat (Mahlzeit!). Tina has a last day's work at the chemist's and no doubt a hundred little things I haven't thought of yet. We'll see...