In the end it was my right knee that gave out. Reena's body seemed to adapt to the stresses and strains of cycle touring whereas mine fell apart progressively. After a few enjoyable days of cycling towards Seville the pain in my knee became pretty intense. We took some time out in Burgos hoping that it would get better but it was still just as sore a few days later. And so, with boredom thresholds set, as ever, to 'minimum' we decided to come home and come up with Plan G.
After much deliberation plan G involves flying to Central America and travelling around with a backpack for a couple of months. The Asia trip was unexpectedly enjoyable and so the hope is that, despite our painfully bad grasp of Spanish, we'll have fun travelling slowly north from Panama to Guatemala taking in the pyramids, beaches, jungles on the way. We fly out on Tuesday 24th March and will be back at the end of May. If any of you have any top travel tips then please let us know as (yet again) we are completely unprepared for this trip.
We have received requests (thanks mum) to keep the blog going. However we will not be upset if any of you decide that you want to unsubscribe as a trip around Central America isn't quite the same expedition as cycling to Istanbul.
More soon...
S&R
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