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After 68 years I’ve finally made it to South Africa and If first impressions count then I like it 🙂 Since my last little biking trip to Cuba I’ve enjoyed a week in January snowboarding, Total luxury and perfect conditions, staying at the superlative Chalet Du Coin at the centre of Les Gets, boarding with fellow residents from Jersey […]
Excellent bit of data presentation by Strava on my years biking in 2015 Click the image for an excellent animation of my 2015 biking year from Strava The data for 2015 is:- Distance 3,263.0 mi Time 273h 51m Elev Gain 83,871 ft Rides 66 Quite a bit lower than my 2014 mileage; Distance 6,154.1 mi […]
My Cuba biking trip is finished. I was away, with my 1983 Schwinn bike (bought in Hanoi on my last bike trip), from the UK for 32 days and spent 27 of them in the saddle. I covered 1463 miles (2340km) with a total vertical ascent, according to Strava of 39,231 feet (well over 7 […]
Safety Well the Canadian cyclists like coming here because it’s a lot safer than countries like Mexico for their winter training and I suspect the Americans will be in the same boat personally I never felt threatened once, you tell folks to sod of and they do! Yep Cuba offers good cycling I never got bumped […]
Saturday I decided to make myself a walking tour of Havana, Lamar went off to explore the film festival since he is in TV production and with Gaia maps running I went of to try and never walk the same street twice 🙂 At the world famous, because of Hemingway, Ambos Mundos hotel I found […]
I spent Thursday meandering around Vinales, just about every house offers accommodation so if you are told the town is full take it with a bucket of salt! The town is popular with walkers going up the hills and around the tobacco farms. In the evening I was wandering around wondering where to eat when […]
Written early Thursday 3 December On Tuesday I left Pinar del Rio and managed to bike the 82 miles to La Bajada on the western tip of the island overlooking Cancun in Mexico. So I now have biked the length of the island from the South eastern corner at Baracoa to the North Western corner. […]
After some thought I decided to get back to Havana along the Cuban motorway system it was about 6 miles further in distance but offers a much better ride. I left Matanza on a very long slow climb but at least with motorway gradients you can always bike up, the road was pretty well deserted […]
Early Sat 28th November After our breakfasts I departed leaving the Dutch couple to enjoy there free day going around the nature reserves whilst I set of to find the museum and Playa Larga. The museum door was open but alas it was closed and wouldn’t open for another 20 minutes or so (Lonely Planet […]