Ready to Rock 'n' Roll

This time tomorrow (Tuesday) I expect Phil and I will be sweating our nuts off in our waterproofs and in 19 degrees, half way to our first overnight stop in Blois, France. Forecast isn't great, least not until we get to Spain, where it is currently 26 degrees. As I write, Phil is on his way over from Cheltenham and I'm expecting him by 18:00. We'll have a pre-trip noshup at Wetherspoons I expect and a couple of  beers, to get some practice in. Before that though, a catch up on the last few weeks.

Ginny went in for her 42k service on 18th August. Turned out, it wasn't the big service, so it was ready again the same day. I'd already arranged with Mark that I'd collect it Tuesday though and that's what I did. I wore my new Rokker jeans. They are comfortable. Looking forward to seeing how they are on a long journey. Tuesday also saw the arrival of my new Neotec 3 helmet. It's a lovely snug fit. I expect it'll take me a little while to get used to the difference in visor and air vent opening but otherwise there's little obvious to differentiate it from the 2 version. I mentioned I bought an adapter kit for my intercom. That was fitted last week, fairly straight forward really. It's not as flush as the made to measure version but don't fix what ain't broke, eh? The intercom has been fully charged too.

I finished tweaking the routes and Phil downloaded them. Then when testing, I found some didn't work as expected, taking us on toll roads, so had to redo a few waypoints. They're all good now. It'll be interesting to see how they match up on Phil's satnav compared to Tomtom, especially when he leads.

Ginny is all prepped to go, tyres pumped, tomtom fitted, panniers attached. I decided, given the forecast to forego a wash but did give her a quick spray/brush to get rid of some of the crap from the Athens trip.

Packing is 99.5% complete, just some electrical bits and my meds to go. ETD is 06:45 for our 08:54 train. Nowadays you have to check-in at least an hour before crossing. I think that's everything covered. 

Bye for now.