This week, as you know, we cycled around the North Pare Mountains. Surprisingly, it was some of the flattest riding we’ve done in East Africa…
Week Fifty-Five: OMG! Kilimanjaro Is Tarmacked
Week Fifty-Four: New Neighbours
Week Fifty-Three: Tanzania’s Pretty Big
Week Fifty-Two: A Sobering Experience
Week Four: Sunshine Brain
Minus the bloodthirsty mosquitoes, we started the week the best way possible: with two days' rest on a hot beach, supping beer and red wine. Embarrassingly, while in this sunny daze, we got totally and utterly lost on the way to the supermarket. A trip that should have taken one hour, ended up taking close to three…
How We Made £1,181.94 Through Cashback and Bonuses
Never in my life did I think I’d become one of these money savvy coupon queens. Dan’s always been good with money, but quite honestly, I’ve been dreadful. Credit cards can be devilish if you let them be. Once we started saving for the trip, however, that all changed very quickly .
So how did we make £1,181.94?...
Week Three: Too Much, Too Soon?
What a week. We cycled everyday. That’s seven days of riding totalling 471 KM. Granted one day was only 20 KM, but it was still a lot of saddle time. After such a wet second week, we decided to change our route and head to the sunny French coast, making a deal with ourselves that we could have two days off once we hit the beach. In hindsight, yes it was too much, too soon.
By ride five, we were tired and grouchy with each other…
