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Sat 11 Nov 2017 My first post on Cycling around Taiwan written after 9 days & 431 miles of biking. The 15 hours of flying to Taiwan then a 8 hour leap into the future took its toll on me leaving me a bit of a wreck on arrival although discovering I could have UNLIMITED mobile internet […]
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 […]
It’s that time of the year again when Sally is about to finish another trip around the sun so time for another joint trip. Previous years have seen as go to China, Turkey, Morocco, France, Majorca and Hungary. This year Sally wanted to do a multi-day bike ride, she didn’t fancy taking her bike on […]
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 […]
Today I decided to go and try the Letchworth Outdoor Pool for swimming. It’s only 27 miles from Cambridge so I thought it would make an excellent ride as well as a swim. The cycle.travel website created a circular route of 63 miles (100km) with quite a few hills. The ride out was OK apart […]
Thursday 27th April 2017 Tokyo to Onomichi Both Sally and my sister kept getting on at me for not trying out the bullet trains in Japan. Since I had a week left before my flight home I decided to bite the bullet (gettit). So yesterday I went to the main Tokyo station and bought a 7-day […]
Tuesday 25 April 2017 Strava is here Pictures here Hotel Toyoko Nihonb Fine windy day and lovely ride down Arakawa River & Canal
Monday 24 April 2017 Strava is here and Photos here Perfect biking day weather
Strava route details and here the pictures I took are here Weather: Sunny all day but only 6 degrees at the top Hotel: Toyoko Inn 1 in Takasaki Great ride up to over 7000 feet, amazing to see really deep snow at the side of the road. The most stunning descent ever down Meganebashi Valley, 1400 […]
Strava is here Pics are here Hotel is Candeo Hotel Chino An excellent lightweight day following the river upstream to Okaya then around the West side of Lake Suwa finishing in Chino at 1.30pm to rest and do domestic chores. Beautiful blossom and snow on the tops of the mountains. Now makes it 2,219km biked […]