Hello! It’s Alan! I hope you are all doing well, thank you for visiting the site.

Time for a little news from EyeOnAfrica HQ

It’s been a while since our last blog, but don’t worry, we have been busy. Last weekend Ian, Tom and I were joined Mark Best from Basingstoke in an attempt to scale the highest mountain in Wales, Mt. Snowdon. Ian, Tom and I made it to the top on about 2 hours. Unfortunately Mark failed to make it to the summit but on the way down he helps some nervous climbers off the mountain in true heroic style!

We have a new corporate sponsor. Greenhouse Graphics are now supporting us by helping us with our printing requirements. Have a look at their website at www.greenhousegraphics.co.uk/ I would like to thank everyone at greenhouse graphics for their support. We will be adding a link to the sponsor’s page very soon.

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EyeOnUK

 

EyeOnUk was a 1,050-mile bike ride scouring the length of the UK. Starting in John O’Groats, at the tip of North-East Scotland, the trip ended in Lands End, the most South-Westerly tip of Cornwall. This incredible journey finished on 23 May after 19 days cycling.

 

So what was our time on the road like? 

 

It all started badly. Even before we made it to the starting point, Tom had suffered five punctures and it seemed like we would never make it to John O’Groats - until we found shelter from the torturous wind in a barn in Barrock, Caithness. The very generous people we met offered to drive us to a local bike expert, Julian, who helped us fix Tom’s bike and gave us some very useful advice for the rest of our ride. Our inexperience was beginning to show but that is what made ...

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It took 19 days, 6 punctures, not enough showers, far to many jelly cubes, 1050.1 miles and a lot of help from the people we met of on the way to do it but just before 6pm on friday eveing we made it to lands end!

Well we really let our hair down on the Friday night in Coventry, with thanks mainly due to a sizeable donation from Duck's boss that came with strict instructions to be spent behind the bar... Who were we to argue? : ) The next day saw the slowest start we'd had yet, not leaving Duck & Ian's comfortable warm house until well into the first half of the FA Cup Final! Needless to say, we didn't make it to Evesham as intended but instead settled for a final night of camping in a field in Stratford-Upon-Avon where Ian's mum picked us up and treated us to dinner! Hehe, not such a bad day after all!

Today was very different and, in a riding sense, far more successful. We got off to an early start and ate up the miles, covering the 66 miles to Thornbury before 7pm! Clean clothes, a hot ...
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