The Team is Complete

After two years of planning and preparation, I can finally say that our long awaited Epic Elbe Cycling Adventure has now officially started. While some of the team have been steadily gathering in Hamburg over the past few days, today is officially DAY ONE of our adventure.

Today was punctuated by a steady stream of Australian arrivals at the reception desk. As each person arrived, I could mentally tick them off in my mind. At this point of time there is only one person still in transit, and that is John Blain. John left Melbourne at the unbelievable hour of 5 am and is due to finally touch down at the Hamburg Airport at 7.30 pm.

Tonight, we are kicking off our group activities with our first group dinner. Unfortunately, John is unlikely to arrive in time to actually eat anything, so I guess we will just have to describe it to him when he finally staggers in the door.

After dinner we will have our first group briefing, to go through some of the plans for the next few days. Although today is day one, we still have two free days to explore and enjoy Hamburg, before we begin our ride on Tuesday morning.

Now that our team is (almost) complete, all we have to do now is to safely get them all the way across Europe to Vienna. What a blast it will be !Read more