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Posts on my experiences in travelling
Shock horror I at to be woken up by Colin calling me at 8.42 this morning 🙁 I think the early start and travelling all day really shattered me and with the room in total darkness I just failed to wake up. After the €4 hotel breakfast, we decided to drive over to Villafranca for […]
A bit of a long and exhausting day starting at 05.50 leaving home and finishing at 23.26 arriving at the Hostal Nirvana in Ponferrada with a side trip to Porto for lunch. According to the Pedometer app I managed 8.5 miles and 28 stairs. It all went very smoothly apart from losing my hat at […]
i awoke to the sound of heavy rain, fortunately today was spent in a minibus with trailer driving the 140 miles to the Voronino country estate. A leisurely start at 12.17 due to Finnair deciding the Norwegian guys luggage was needed in Helsinki rather than Moscow! But gave me time to part assemble the bike […]
The dining scene is an upmarket first-floor restaurant in downtown Lisbon with tablecloths linen napkins unpretentious and really pleasant. My first visit was 2 nights ago when it was totally packed and they squeezed me in on a bar stool. Tonight it was just a few of us I sat down in a central location facing […]
Tuesday, February 27th, 2018 Following a previous comment on this blog from my friend and former wealth creator Pete. I decided to visit Coimbra the site of Portugals oldest university founded in 1290, Not Europes which is Bologna in Italy founded in 1088, btw Cambridge is 1209. I decided, thankfully, to leave the bike in […]
The main reason for staying at the stupidly expensive Bentota Beach Hotel was so I could use their river cruise through the mangrove swamps. I opted for the one hour one as experience tells me I rapidly get bored sitting in a boat 🙂 It was just me and the guide, a young chap who […]
Finally, halfway through the year, the apartment sale is finally totally complete and I’m able to start travelling again albeit currently restricted to shanks pony as having 1/3 of my prostate removed in the HoLEP operation 3 weeks ago makes it inadvisable to do long bumpy bike rides for a while. I decided to stick […]
Sally and I decided that it was about time we gave the two wheels a rest and give the Scarpa boots & Leki poles an airing 🙂 Sally’s criteria was it had to be warm and hilly! Since Mr T would only allow her two weeks of and it was November we came up with the Canary […]
Nothing much to report today, as if there is any day 🙂 A rather pleasant time pushing the very aptly named Smilla (9 months old) with beautiful ‘pausbackem‘ apple cheeks in Danish or for me chubby chops 🙂 around the Alster river lake for a couple of hours. I refound the Jody bike shop and […]
Now my little Hanoi to Singapore bike ride is finished. Here is a first glimpse of my stats I biked 2,558 miles (4093km) with 55,000 feet (16,764m) of ascent. Pedalled it in 218 hours with 40 days on the road. My total time away from Cambridge (on this trip) was 68 days from 2nd Feb […]
