Todays Metro (or Herald)-- Irish Cyclists Destory Hotel

scottreynolds

Anyone else see the piece about the Irish Cyclists destorying a hotel. more bad press coverage.... I'm beginning to think theat the papers have it out for us.

Carroller16

They took stories off it???

delta_bravo

http://img.e-metro.ie/e-edition-ie/A14igd/Metroire20090224/resources/index.htm?referrerUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.e-metro.ie%2Fe-metro-ie Page 5

scottreynolds

FRom the metro link posted above.

petethedrummer

we're great craic aren't we? olééééé olé olé olé

Caroline_ie

Irish cycling charity ...? Blazing saddles? Surely not ...

Lumen

€1000 damage = "wreck hotel"

Another great story from the Metrotards.

Trojan

A door, a chair and a bed? Lads, if you're gonna get in the papers for wrecking a place, do a proper job of it.

lol @ TCD reference.

Joking aside, I'd be disappointed if it was Blazing Saddles.

72hundred

€1000... must have been some very nice furniture.

And the Metero states they were unavailable for comment, of course they were, they feic'in cycling n&s america!

rob1891

sounds like these "rugby-mad college buddies"

http://www.independent.ie/national-news/pedalpower-propels-friends-from-alaska-to-argentina-1242173.html

scottreynolds

http://www.pacycletest.com/2009/02/23/only-ten-cycling-days-left/

February 23rd, 2009
Earlier in the month we left the fertile agricultural surroundings of the Mendoza province and headed south east towards the Atlantic. We weren’t long on the bikes before we entered the southern regions of the country and Patagonia. Apart from a few areas of intense agriculture Patagonia is the most barren landscape we have cycled through. The challenge out here is the wind. Patagonia is one of the windiest places in the world; in such a barren place there is no where to take shelter from it.

The Argentinian people are amongst the most friendliest we’ve met on the road. It’s with regret that over the last couple of weeks we’ve not got the rub of the green. Our trailer was broken into on the road and all our spare parts were stolen. On two other separate occasions two of our spare bikes have been stolen. With very little Spanish it’s very difficult to deal with the authorities out here. Unfortunately, from speaking to a local French hotelier who speaks perfect english, corruption runs deep particularly as you get further south. He’s upping ship himself and moving to the more picturesque settings of the ski town of Bariloche. We‘ve witnessed it ourselves as the police demanded 4,000 pesos (1000 Euro or three months wages out here) from us when a door of a hostel succumbed to a bit of horseplay. A bit like our experience with the port authorities in Ecuador; your never safe from paying ‘Gringo’ tax out here!

So with only 10 days to go everyone is really excited about the run in to Ushuaia and finishing up. Lets hope the wind dies down and doesn’t blow away the budget tents we’ve had to buy to replace the ones that were pinched! We’re back on the road now and from looking at the map there doesn’t seem to be much between here and the end. Looking forward to seeing everyone on Paddy’s Day when the bikes will be retired for the foreseeable future!

Its isn't blazing saddles it was the lads mentioned above -- sounds like mis reporting somewhere

Karma

oh why do i let it get to me...
I plan on being the worst cyclist out there so a journalist may be right...

scottreynolds

I just feel sorry for them returning to recession ireland :-)

adzer086

I was in Comodoro Riveadavia and believe me ... nothing in that place is worth a Grand!!:eek:

NeilMcEoigheann

my GF's brother cycled with them lads from Alaska down to California, apparently they are just really nice guys. remember trust the papers.....
the meteo its free because thats how much the reporting is much