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It is pouring!

For the first time I have to take out my rain cape, considering we are in the rain season I have also been lucky … after a dozen of kilometers the rain let its place to the sun.

The road goes up with very pedalable uphills, the traffic is the most intense up to now, the level of CO2 very high, the road is narrow and a almost fall in climbing back from the small side passage where I ended up because of a exceptional transport, let me understand I have to concentrate to the max. Continue reading →

24 km/h on average absolute record of this journey!

This wonderful final part of the Rift Valley with fields, lakes and even vineyards  … it has passed fast but not too fast not be admired.

When you go like this you would never get off the bicycle, it is like making love for hours with the woman you love.

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Are they stealing my bicycle?

After a stage like the one of yesterday in the morning you are dazed a bit dwelling between a mix of euphoria and desire to stay under the blankets until midday.

I have to get up necessarily there is somebody getting my bicycle from the veranda outside my room!

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Coffee Cola?

In the villages in Ethiopia there is not much difference between dinner and breakfast, last night njera with two types of lentils and this morning the same, with a coffee instead of a beer … the injera has never thrilled me much with that acidic aftertaste, the first time I saw it in a restaurant in Addis I thought it was a small towel, here by now I eat it without any problem because, like yesterday, at times it is the only carbohydrate available.

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Bread-crumbed cotoletta?

It is raining. Spaghetti with two types of lentils, water and coffee, a part from the beer it is the repeat of last night dinner. I tour the town looking if maybe there is an internet point … there is not … I knew it … two boys point the tip of a hill where I can go if I have a MTN modem … I think Ethiopia is one of the few countries in the world with a mobile phone network monopoly … either MTN or MTN …

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Mount Kenya, why are you hiding?

This morning I took it easy because the stage was not long and because in Nanyuki there was a very fast internet connection, like in Milan. I downloaded all the maps of Ethiopia up to Addis Abeba, which Giorgia had prepared for me considering different options, because neither in Zambia nor in Nairobi I found a map of Ethiopia. At the cyber cafè there was no Excel, and not even Word not to pay for the licenses I think, so printing the tables with the kilometers was complicated …

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‘Don’t you feel cold?’ asks me a young girl coming back from school, while her school mates throw each other hail balls …

Yes today I got cold! Very cold! It seemed to be on the Alps on a rainy day … from the 1197 meters of Sagana to almost 2000 of Naro Moru, with in the middle a series of uphill and downhill, then you go down again but not as much as you went up.

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