The Borneo Countdown begins!
01st March 2010
I have started to count down to my Borneo trip. I had to start soon, and the 1st March seems as good a day as any! Fitness and raising the funds are going to be the main issues, and I’m really behind with both!
The length of this winter has knocked me back a bit training wise. I’ve committed to a coast to coast cycle with my mate DC, doing Blackpool to Scarborough on the roads sometime in May. So it really doesn’t give us much time to get up to the level of fitness that we both need.
We have both done long distance cycles before, I went all the way south of Geneva two years ago, and DC did the same C2C a couple of years ago in aid of meningitis research, so it is definitely in there, so let’s hope we can both pull it out, so to speak!
I need to start putting some road miles in and its got to start now, or else.
I have also got my first jabs tomorrow morning. I think i’m starting with the easy tetanus and polio boosters, but I’ve got to have the full Monty of Hepatitus, rabies and Japanese Encephalitis as well as enough Malaria tablets for a 3 month stay. Its going to cost a packet, but I can’t go unprotected, its just not worth the risk!
Then the flights, which are at a reasonable price, but I can’t make my mind up which way to go.
I’ve never been indecisive in the past, but checking out the flights to Borneo I can’t make my mind up whether to go for the 24 or 36 hour option.
Easy choice you might think, and my normal pragmatic self tells me that 24 is shorter than 36, and the price difference isn’t worth bothering about. So, why the dithering.....well the 24 hour option is from Heathrow and the 36 hour option is from Manchester.
Do I take the early train from Knaresborough, and get on another that will take me straight to Manchester Airport, or do I trudge down to the smoke, probably the day before, so I can be sure of being there 4 hours before the flight leaves.
The 36 hour option involves 2 changes, but in the final analysis, I won’t be there any earlier using the one stop 24 hour option....so I don’t know. I think I’m siding on the run to Manchester. I hate Heathrow, and getting there isn’t too bad, but the journey back arriving at 6.00am is always a killer.
I’ll sleep on it and decide tomorrow!
Hope the ladies of Egyptia like the photos, FlickrPICS
More later.....
The length of this winter has knocked me back a bit training wise. I’ve committed to a coast to coast cycle with my mate DC, doing Blackpool to Scarborough on the roads sometime in May. So it really doesn’t give us much time to get up to the level of fitness that we both need.
We have both done long distance cycles before, I went all the way south of Geneva two years ago, and DC did the same C2C a couple of years ago in aid of meningitis research, so it is definitely in there, so let’s hope we can both pull it out, so to speak!
I need to start putting some road miles in and its got to start now, or else.
I have also got my first jabs tomorrow morning. I think i’m starting with the easy tetanus and polio boosters, but I’ve got to have the full Monty of Hepatitus, rabies and Japanese Encephalitis as well as enough Malaria tablets for a 3 month stay. Its going to cost a packet, but I can’t go unprotected, its just not worth the risk!
Then the flights, which are at a reasonable price, but I can’t make my mind up which way to go.
I’ve never been indecisive in the past, but checking out the flights to Borneo I can’t make my mind up whether to go for the 24 or 36 hour option.
Easy choice you might think, and my normal pragmatic self tells me that 24 is shorter than 36, and the price difference isn’t worth bothering about. So, why the dithering.....well the 24 hour option is from Heathrow and the 36 hour option is from Manchester.
Do I take the early train from Knaresborough, and get on another that will take me straight to Manchester Airport, or do I trudge down to the smoke, probably the day before, so I can be sure of being there 4 hours before the flight leaves.
The 36 hour option involves 2 changes, but in the final analysis, I won’t be there any earlier using the one stop 24 hour option....so I don’t know. I think I’m siding on the run to Manchester. I hate Heathrow, and getting there isn’t too bad, but the journey back arriving at 6.00am is always a killer.
I’ll sleep on it and decide tomorrow!
Hope the ladies of Egyptia like the photos, FlickrPICS
More later.....
