First: no more work

First: no more work.  Save the dinars for the rest of the year and rather than invest the tax free savings into a fund that may well fall off the back of a yacht, or fly to Cyprus in the middle of the night (too eighties? – more recently then), be pissed up against the wall by some banker, the investment will be the bike.  My bike.  A pro’s bike.  And for me the choice is easy: Look.  Brand loyalty makes it an obvious decision.  My Look 496 triathlon bike has bonded with me, and me to the French brand, and therefore the road bike has to be the 695. 

All this on the 1h30min flight into Dubai. 

On the descent I pick up the book I’m reading, Pedalling to Hawaii by Stevie Smith and he quotes Goethe. 

“Whatever you can do, or dream you can do: begin it.  Boldness has power, energy and magic in it.”

And so the idea develops, the dream begins...