13th – 24th March 2023

Well the flights didn’t fuck me up this time and the coach journey to Porto Covo was pleasant if a bit long. 18 degrees and sunshine in March with an onshore breeze. What more could you ask for.

This is the trip that I postponed from last November and maybe that’s a good thing. The long term weather shows a bad day on the 17th but dry to fine the rest of the 2 weeks.

This will be tough. 12 days and 150 miles, but I am determined to make it – provided the old bod hangs together. There are a couple of hard 15 milers in this but my fitness has improved since the Isle of Man and now that I’ve removed those god-awful inserts that the podiatrist gave me that were fucking my knees, I can move without the grace of painkillers (let’s see how that goes after 12 miles and 6 hours and the difficult 3 miles still to go).