Today's fiasco started: Gus had bought some shiny new Castelli shorts which he hoped would make him go faster. but when he put them on today there was a twist in one of the shoulder straps. We tried for 45 minutes turning the shorts inside out, backwards, one leg in, one leg out and still the twist remained. Hunger got the better of us so we set off to the cafe with the plan to call in at the sports shop on route. The lady at the shop took one look and said that the error was in manufacturing and exchanged them immediately. There was 45 minutes of my life that was I was never going to get back. Croissants for breakfast and then we set off with a view to cross another set of alps
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