Day 67 – Sunday 6 Dec – 7051k – camping wild near Dyabogou, 60k short of Didieni

With news of the World Cup draw finally filtering through it was great to have something else to think about other than where to find water, when would I get my next hit of malt loaf or how seriously I should be taking the sharp pains in my right buttock! Well, things couldn’t be much better for England although the fixture list doesn’t do me any favours and I’ll have to work out whether it is feasible to cycle to Rustenburg post comrades in time for the US game! For the time being though I’ve just got to keep putting in brutally long slow days in the hope that I can get to Bamako in time to sort my Burkina visa before next weekend.