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Wednesday 7th February 2018 What a relief, a day of wall to wall sunshine along super bikeways and quiet roads between Alicante & Murcia all be it with a bit to much chill in the air for my inadequate clothes 🙁 I left The Esplanade Hotel in Alicante after an OK breakfast and retrieving the bike from […]
I woke up and rode to Barcelona Station in yet more heavy rain 🙁 stopping for an excellent breakfast at Granier where I ate last night. I booked the €40.70 ticket to Valencia on trainline.com last night it arrived as a pdf that they said needed printing out at the station ticket machine. However, the RENFE […]
I woke up totally refreshed and the sheets hadn’t moved out of place all night. Today rain was scheduled and duly delivered 🙁 Ibis served an excellent buffet breakfast and I was soon on my way in the heavy rain to the main station just over 3 miles away according to my Strava. Once again […]
Lifeday: 25759 (70.525 yrs) Date Sun 4 Feb 2018 Location: Lattes, Montpellier, France A bit of a monster day especially with very limited food & drink (missing the ubiquitous 7Elevens of Asia) plus going astray several times. I left the hotel pretty late as I didn’t get to bed until after 1 am due to […]
Lifeday: 25,758 (70.523yrs) Date: Sat 3 Feb 2018 Location: Avignon, France I’ve been pondering where to go for my next bike trip now I’ve finally recovered from the dreaded lurgy. My swimming pals keep going on about the excellence of European high-speed trains and also Tony has been saying how much he enjoyed Lisbon, plus […]
Our Great North ride ended in Edinburgh a full 444 miles from Sally’s back door. places we stayed at and distances travelled are:- The whole trip was very enjoyable with reasonably kind weather a bit blowy in Yorkshire where I’m sorry to say the Esk Valley 30% hills, after the first couple, rather defeated us […]
Todays little ride was to visit the Blue Egg Cafe which is South of Great Bardfield in Essex. Someone at my party recommended it to us last weekend. cycle.travel created a lovely 60 mile return route. For Sally and I It was a late start – after 11am delayed by a visit to the new […]
I’m returning home from Rabat today 76 days after leaving Cambridge. Although I’ve returned back to the UK a couple of times. Once from La Rochelle and once from Zaragoza both times with Ryanair. Total days in the saddle including the time when I was biking around Ibiza with Sally was 39 days and distance […]
I woke up to the rain and finished my ride in the rain, in between I saw blue sky for perhaps 5 minutes. Thank goodness today was only a short ride of 24 miles and 559 feet of ascent as it just hammered down. The worse problem was the gigantic puddles everywhere, as my son […]
The weather forecast yesterday was so, so right 🙁 I awoke to very wet roads a very threatening sky and a wind that was going to be in my face all day long and a very long day at that. The breakfast at the neighbouring cafe was excellent 2 fried eggs, bread, coffee, orange juice […]