Well unbelievably it’s now only 9 hours away. Twelve of us are leaving from Clapham Common at 7am tomorrow morning:
Joe, Frankie, Paddy, Cat, Mike, Mel, Lisa, Peter, Simon, Richard, Emily and Gareth are all cycling to Dover. Min and Sarah are driving in support. On Monday morining Joe, Frankie, and Paddy are taking the ferry to Calais with Min and Sarah continuing in support. This is the team for the first two weeks.
Carol, Jo and Connie are ferrying back those who aren’t carrying on from Dover.
Debora’s brother and sister-in-law Rob and Val are setting off on July 29th to catch the cyclists up at the Italian border. Paddy, Min and Sarah are returning to England from there. Lisa and Cat are flying out to Turin arriving on Sunday. Lisa will take over from Rob and Val in support and Cat will join us riding the third week across Italy and up to the Dolomites.
Neil and Francesca are then taking over support, when Lisa and Cat fly back from Verona on August 7th.
Jo and Mike are flying in to Verona on the 8th – Jo to take over support, and Mike to ride the last week with Joe and Frankie. The final person to join is Mel who is flying out to Verona on August 10th and cycling to Venice with us. Frankie and Joe are then driving back, and the others taking the plane.
As you can see a lot of effort by many people. Now to try to sleep, and stop thinking about the Galibier. I will try to update as we go along.
