So, we are still in Münich trying to buy some bicycles. Everyday we inch a minoscopi forwards with our organisation. It´s nice here, we´ve been staying in a hostel in town and spending the day roaming the bike shops, searching on ebay and reading the local ´buy sell´. Ed departed yesterday heading for Austria with a somewhat reduced backpack and a plan to tramp in the alps for about 5 days, before coming back here and joining Abbie who will have arrived from NZ. It was sad to see him go, he has been a great traveling companion over the last month!We have bought several large maps, and spend the evenings pouring over them in the hostel's crowded kitchen. Making the logistics of our adventure even more complicated is the fact we also have to prepare to depart from (most likely Rome) to Malasia for Chris to race there in mid October. So we plan to deposit all but the bare necesseties of our gear here, and then we will end up in Malasia with practically nothing but some cycle paniers! This is going to be very interesting. So we somehow need to get some adventure race gear there for him from NZ as well as find doctors for Malaria tablets, book flights, sort out what is happening with Chris´s PHD.... for Emily and Chris whose organisation is renowned this is rather a challenge!
So the plan at the moment is to head down through a somewhat detouring route through the Austrian Alps, then into the Dolomites, all on mountain bikes so we can make some detours over some maybe not existant passes and get to some cool places. So, we are rearing to go, if only the bikes would hurry up!................. Oh, and I thought I´d better add that photo in of Chris looking speedy, thought it might make the cycle gods hurry up and produce us some bikes (hehehe).
(By the way, I´m pleased to see the answer "Yes, and Chris is a silly billy" is currently winning the poll!)
Goodbye Ed! (Photo: Ed barely escapes a brutal crushing from a vicious BMW after arrival in Munich).
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