The saddle saga: meze from heaven in Turkey
Our cyclists, Matt McDonald and Andy Madeley, load up on carbs to see them through cold, mountain nights on their 13,000-mile trip.
Luckily for us Turkish cuisine is not just limited to the doner kebab
Matt McDonald
7:00PM GMT 03 Jan 2012
When it’s -5°C outside of your sleeping bag there isn't a lot that you want to do. You’d like to burrow deeper into the warm, synthetic fabric until the sun's rays penetrate the layers and melt your frozen toes. What you don't want to do is unzip your toasty haven and put on ice-cold clothing, still damp with the sweat of yesterday's climb, and pedal up a mountain. But this is what we did during the first few days of our ride through Turkey.
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