{"id":17105,"date":"2017-06-16T18:55:38","date_gmt":"2017-06-16T18:55:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/snailpacecycling.co.uk\/?p=17105"},"modified":"2017-06-16T18:55:38","modified_gmt":"2017-06-16T18:55:38","slug":"day-237-ben-mansour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/snailpacecycling.co.uk\/wordpress\/2017\/06\/day-237-ben-mansour\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 237 – Ben Mansour"},"content":{"rendered":"

Day 237                                                       13th March
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Another day off the bike – I’m missing it!<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Up at 8.30 Brekkie with Kamal and then off to sign an agreement between the two feuding brothers at the police station and peace resumed there. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Loading the van – no more room inside<\/p><\/div>\n

Then onto Bouselhem’s house for lunch of salad, olives, fried fish and a whole chicken followed by fish tagine and then fruit. Kamal, Aziz & Beslin all made up a lunch of ten. Absolutely stuffed after eating so much again. He had scales and I weighed in at 64 kg! <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Back to the house where after a quick change I went to the field of papa where I tried to help sow some seeds and pretended to drive the tractor. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Boys and their toys!<\/p><\/div>\n

We walked back and then Kamal showed me around the farm properly and how to grow bananas.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Growing bananas<\/p><\/div>\n

It’s a shame that after six years work he has now taken on the patisserie and the bananas are not being looked after as well, but the money was not enough for him to live on.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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