Tuesday 2 July, packed breakfast organised by the hotel, which we ate in the hotel drive way, off we set around 07:15. Really hot morning and very soon the road deteriorated, on we pushed on exposed rough roads with no respite from the heat, just rolling through arable farm land with either wheat or sunflowers no cover at all. The only thing on our minds was concentrating on the ever deteriorating road surface, its only going to get worse was Keith's strategy, Linnys was to turn up his music, I just carried on with my turetts (not sure how to spell that, but sweared a lot). We soon came to the usual truckers cafe, Linney had a salad, Keith and I went for the soup boorst & beetroot respectively though I think they where the same, veggie diet broken , if you count a bit of gristle as meat, but hey ho I need to eat. Off we pressed again into the sourcing heat with tarmac melting ( you could see our tracks in it) on to our destination, via another little stop. One of the hardest rides I have ever done, on roads that needed 100% concentration in temperatures reaching 42 degrees C