AGHHHH!!! Turkey here I come!!

So I leave for my cycle to Turkey from Glasgow tomorrow. No big deal just pedalling the length of europe for shits and giggles! Ahhh hmmm NOT!! Safe to say I am proper bricking it!!! I'd love to say I'm all prepared and training has went well but......prepared isn't a choice of word I would use. Well I have googled Amsterdam to Istanbul and printed that out haha! I'm going with it will be more of an adventure if I don't actually know where I'm going , that and I am a complete lazy bastard! As far as training goes I've cycled from Edinburgh to Glasgow twice and pedalled from my flat to lenzie train station which is a massive mile away haha! Would love to use more swear words to describe my shambolic preparation but I got my testicles kicked off my gran for the amount of potty mouthed shenanigans in my last post! She watches countdown so shes articulate n shit! Agh well I'll be somewhere in Europe so she can't give me into trouble. 😄 love you Jinty

The adventure of a lifetime begins, there only so much Bear Grylls and Mark Beaumont documentaries that I can watch before going mad. The long road to Istanbul awaits me, hopefully meet some amazing people and see some amazing sights. I was thinking of ways to stop or fight back if I get mugged then I realised if I just open my mouth and speak that the glesga accent should be enough of a deterrent for even the most hardened European wanker-thieves!

Get on my just giving page if you haven't already donated www.justgiving.co.uk/chrisbarr90 and help me raise some serious dollar for yorkhill children's hospital.

Before I leave I'd like to thank all my friends and family for supporting me (well apart from the occasional "why not just go to turkey for 2 weeks ya knob" comments). As soon as I'm back were going to party hard even with all the blisters on my arse!

Anyway got to go and cry in the toilet and tell myself I'm a big boy and big boys don't cry! OUT! bitches be slippin (just for you J)

Kirky to Turkey

The first post is an obvious one. Has to be about my charity cycle from Kirkintilloch to Istanbul for yorkhill children's foundation.

Firstly I'd like to thank everybody that has donated so far, I really appreciate it. I am currently sitting on £595 on my just giving page and about £50 or £60 cash donations so far. Still got a bit to go to get to my target of £2000 so if you haven't donated yet go on and stick a cheeky wee fiver down at www.justgiving.co.uk/chrisbarr90 Keep your eyes peeled for my race night. All going well should be in the good old Kirky miners in the next few weeks. Feel like I'm Writing a bloody award speech but also thanks to Craig Hardie for the front and rear racks to carry all my gear to turkey and to alpine bikes for sorting me out with a generous discount for all my other equipment and accessories. Arse licking out the way...moving on.

So couple of weeks ago I put on Facebook that if I get £100 worth of donations in one day I won't shave until I leave for turkey. Well...I got £220 in the space of a few hours. FUCK! So no shaving until June the 1st. I'm now loving my beard and feel like we've been together for years. Come the 1st of June is it coming off?? Is it fuck. It's here to stay. Had mixed views, people absolutely love it or hate. Ah well. Now I can take gay pictures of myself and post them instagram and feel a little less homo/guilty about it. Can't wait until I learn to post videos on this so you can 1. Check out my kick ass beard and 2. Put a face to all the shite your reading.

Sooooooo first one out the way loads more shite to follow in the leading weeks and months, hope you enjoy reading. If you don't then get it up yi :)

Much love