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The journal
As most people know by now 🙂 I’m back in Cambridge after my mega bike trip. I managed to bring my bike back, from my apartment in Les Gets, where I left it after last years ride out there. To fit in with this years theme I decided to follow the Rhine (from its source […]
Before leaving home I had carefully plotted and loaded into my GPS a Harwich to Cambridge route on Bikely, avoiding all towns and main roads. It proved an excellent route, although one part was down a track, but I was used to that by now! What a pleasure to have fellow cyclists, passers by etc […]
Today was the final Rhine day where The Rhine meets the North Sea, although a long time ago it met the River Thames and wound its way through what is now The English Channel to meet The Atlantic. I did 90.5 miles in 8hr 13min making a near record 11mph! The smell of the sea […]
Today I finally made it to The Netherlands leaving Germany behind when I crossed on the ferry at Millingen aan de Rijn. I did the 77.6miles at 10.1mph on another really hot day, consuming 1 litre of Apple juice in just about one gulp! The countryside is pretty flat and uninspiring with no industry either. […]
Today was a day of many dead ends including falling of my bike at Monheim! I left Cologne over the railway bridge which is festooned with hundreds of locks all engraved by lovers and locked to the steel mesh – be fascinating to know more about this ‘tradition’ On the other side I was barred […]
Today was the first day I encountered rain. It was very heavy in the night but when I set off it had turned to drizzle. Fascinating to start off next to a foundry that made huge boat propellers bought back memories of my time at Renishaw ironworks fettling shop. Its interesting the amount of heavy […]
A day in the blazing heat riding along the exposed top of the dam that holds The Rhine into a navigable river, its all very reminiscent of fenland rivers, alongside the main river are poulders which are flooded when the water flow is to high for the river. The German’s struggle with the signing so […]
Today was yet another scorcher, last nights lightning made no difference. I did 64 miles in just over 6 hours making it 10mph! Some of the places I went through were simply unbelievable eg Stein am Rhein a real postcard town! Its pretty amazing to see folks been carried along in the current at 6mph, […]
With much trepidation and a loaded up bike I left my apartment in Les Gets at dawn break (06.30) to try and beat the high temperatures (30 deg) today. I made it to Evian by 8.30 getting frozen in the process! as its mainly downhill in a sun shaded valley. I soon warmed up on […]
