Like a giant doing the hurdles at the olympic's, the 21 Dams that cover the first 580 km of the upper Rhine have become quite the challenge. Portaging around these massive hurdles in 100 plus heat is burning the calories quicker than any late night shopping channel diet you can find.
With a stop over in Basel we had chance to clean our stinking gear and catch a quick dose of food poisoning, that is always a winner before a hot sweaty paddle. Quickly adapting to the lay of the portages we became quite creative with moving our kayaks around obstacles, elevators into the water, sliding them down hills and towing them like Santas sledge, what ever works Royal. With the mosquitos knocking at our tent door and the sun making us into a old leather chucker boots we finally reached our next goal of Strasbourg, FRANCE, not Germany..
With a combined age of 121 the injuries are slowly raising there ugly head with a pulled muscle in his neck for Sean, tennis elbow for Phil ( he can't even play tennis ) and a few nose hairs for Rob. Age is moving quicker down the river than us.
We would like to take time to thank Lawerz and Julia at globe paddler in Basel for the amazing help with storing the gear, transport into town and the overall information they passed on.
A huge thank you to Lucy Culkin and family at the winking Prawn for there generous help. Please see the link on the blog page for the Winking Prawn.
Thank you everyone who who has generously donated on our justgiving site, business account and the endless stream of cash filling up our Help for Heroes collection pots at the Norton Arms, Runcorn and Jeykll and Hyde pub, Chamonix.
Big thanks to the lads on Beatrice Alpha for there kind donation and their healthy share tips? More time outside and less time in the tea shack and the shares might sore again? LOL
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