He is now more distressed mentally than physically, missing out on all the rides, and bored in the hotel as Sean and Adrian go out all day. But it sounded a bad fall from what he said (much worse than his prang in the ill-fated Chersey race in April!)
He came off on gravel on a bend. Very bad gravel rash all down one side, and, at the time linked shock). He went off in an ambulance to a hospital. In the four hours he spent there he says he had superb treatment, fully examined, in a way which he says would put the Nat. Health Service to shame. It was covered by EU form 111, but they never even bothered with it; money and form-filling didn’t come into it.
He says bike seems OK (subject to a check by GB on return). He may take a taxi with Adrian's wife (I think) to see the start of the Nove Colli event at Cesenatico. As even walking is a bit painful he scatched from that right away.
But no doubt he’ll be posting more at length on his return!
He does say that the Perla Hotel in Riccione and the staff there is superb — he is already talking about a return visit!
He now has the annoying prospect of lugging his very heavy bike bag, through train changes in Milan and Paris, back to Waterloo, where I'll be picking him up around 1pm Tuesday.
Roy
I'm not saying anymore.
