Cyprus

We've managed to make it across to Cyprus, and are currently reviewing options for the next leg. Most likely is a trip to Beirut in Lebanon and work around from there.

Geoff Lord (Dan Lord's dad) has sorted us out with a couple of awesome rooms, we each have a double bed and there is a full kitchen in his plush apartment in Kyrenia! Looking forward to cooking up some massive meals and gaining weight.

Cyprus is pretty hot. At the moment it is 37 degrees and we are dead keen for some midday cycling up the ridge to the South! Good training for the coming weeks. We have become quite adept at sweating, Geoff met us at the port and we cycled after his car to his apartment. We were absolutely beasted by him up the hills. We felt fine doing it but when we stopped in still air the sweat started streaming off us at a pretty disgusting rate. We need that baking hot wind to evaporate that stuff off us! No wonder we've had some fairly significant salt and urea crusting on our clothes and helmet. Some of those crystals are so large hippies would think they were healing.

All is well apart from some sweat rashes and minor burn of the noggin. I too have had quite a short trim in the name of hygiene (combined with an incredible Turkish shave), so the sun is annihilating my scalp. The yeasts are dying though so that is fine.