New year action......

The deed is done, the trauma is over, the flights are booked..... there was a minor problem with baggage allowance and we thought we were going to have to pay £30 per kilo over the 23 kilo allowance , needless to say I was not impressed as we had previously been quoted as having two pieces each. Luckily our friendly travel agent's boss rode to the rescue and confirmed that we did indeed have the higher allowance... Who'd have thought you could have so much fun in a travel agency on new year's eve. Anyhow we are leaving on the 5th March, that's now officially less than two months. Hurray!

Well, finally we got our act together and went out on a test ride around the villages east of Oxford at the weekend, then it took me 4 hours to thaw out my toes! Richard is now having kittens as to whether he made the right decision in choosing drop handle bars on the tandem, apparently (yawn!) they are not so great for control when trying to man handle 350lbs of tandem, luggage, stoker (or rear-admiral) and captain on unsealed roads, and especially since his recent experience of sliding to work through the snow on a dropped bar solo nearly led to disaster.... mmm. Anyhow, that's a decision for him to make... I just hope for his sake that there'll be no inelegant and unsightly losses of control when I am on the back!!