Trip: 6 months across Europe
There are [48] stories from my trip: 6 months across Europe
SLOVENIA | Monday, 23 Sep 2013 | Views [387]
We are chasing summer across national borders and over mountain ranges. From Switzerland we cycle east to Bregenz, Austria. It feels like we are doing something a little wrong, on a rainy evening following an elderly woman with a head scarf over the ... Read more >
SWITZERLAND | Monday, 16 Sep 2013 | Views [664] | Comments [1]
'Push, pull, push, pull. Don't just push. Keep some form. Breath. Don't vomit. It would be a waste of perfectly delicious almond pastry. Oh. My. God.'
I'm climbing the second of the day's climbs. It is as steep as promised, but the 'oh my ... Read more >
SWITZERLAND | Monday, 16 Sep 2013 | Photo Gallery
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SWITZERLAND | Monday, 16 Sep 2013 | Views [464] | Comments [1]
There is a handy application by which I can chart all of the GPS files from the trip so far onto the one map. It is also a heat map - the blue lines turn redder the more ofter we go over the same place.
Our trip so far - Overview
Scandinavia ... Read more >
UNITED KINGDOM | Sunday, 8 Sep 2013 | Views [293]
Here are some stats from the Scotland leg of the tour for anyone geeky enough to be interested (with the Scandinavia stats as well for comparison)
Scotland
Scandinavia
Count:
41 Activities
32 Activities
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UNITED KINGDOM | Sunday, 8 Sep 2013 | Views [315]
These are our final days in Scotland. We are back in Edinburgh, having done what feels like a full circle of the country while barely scratching the surface. All up, dear Bertie the Bicycle has rolled just over 5000kms. After Matt's run in with the sheep, ... Read more >
UNITED KINGDOM | Sunday, 8 Sep 2013 | Photo Gallery
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UNITED KINGDOM | Saturday, 31 Aug 2013 | Views [245]
Chinese Whispers
We spend a fair bit of time talking to each other in less than ideal auditory environments. This is most often when we are slipstreaming each other (one riding behind the other, on bicycles), often with the added confounder of strong ... Read more >
UNITED KINGDOM | Saturday, 31 Aug 2013 | Views [288] | Comments [2]
What I am going to tell you has something to do with how sometimes it's necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a shorter distance correctly; or, maybe I only think it has something to do with that. But it's why I went to ... Read more >
UNITED KINGDOM | Tuesday, 27 Aug 2013 | Views [444] | Comments [2]
I think alot of places lend themselves to a particular soundtrack. Cycling the wide open planes of Lewis with the wind at your back is Josh Homme's Desert Sessions. There are small villages on the edges of the island, which are handfuls of austere concrete ... Read more >
UNITED KINGDOM | Thursday, 22 Aug 2013 | Views [315]
While on Iona I had my first 9 holes of golf in a couple of years. Iona is a place of pilgrimage - Christianity has been on Iona since St Columba arrived in the 6th Centrury. The Book of Kells was produced there, before constant viking attacks forced ... Read more >
UNITED KINGDOM | Thursday, 22 Aug 2013 | Views [271]
We wanted utopia. Just for four days, mind. We weren't going to be greedy about it. While Scottish cycling had been beautiful, it had also rained every day since we arrived and our belongings were varying in degrees of damp that ranged between very to ... Read more >
UNITED KINGDOM | Wednesday, 14 Aug 2013 | Views [303]
Sweeney Todd
I had my first haricut and shave of the trip so far, and it was quite an experience.
My moustahce was beginning to tickle my eyebrows when the wind blew, so a visit to Sweeney Todd's in the highlands was in order (please see photos).... Read more >
UNITED KINGDOM | Wednesday, 14 Aug 2013 | Photo Gallery
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UNITED KINGDOM | Wednesday, 14 Aug 2013 | Views [270]
Sweet rural fragrances with maritime flavours, and a midge-tinged finish
It is a grey summer afternoon when the Petersborough Express spills us out onto Waverley Station in Edinburgh. We have spent the last few hours listened to the excited ... Read more >
UNITED KINGDOM | Thursday, 8 Aug 2013 | Views [419]
Maps
I have attached a rough map of the first part of our Scotland leg. Riding over the sea will be difficult, but if a certain gentleman in history is reputed to have walkjed on water, then we can bloody-well ride.
Stats
Some stats from our ... Read more >
DENMARK | Sunday, 4 Aug 2013 | Views [427]
Having found an appropriately geeky bike shop on Matt's wavelength as far as wheels are concerned, Bertie the bicycle is back on the road. We cycled from Gothenburg to Copenhagen along the Swedish west coast. After the dramatic scnery of Norway, Sweden ... Read more >
SWEDEN | Friday, 26 Jul 2013 | Views [434] | Comments [5]
We arrived in Oslo three days ago. Gabbie and Stella, the Americans we had cycled with earlier, had recommended to us a website for cycle tourists which allows you to get in touch with people who will take in cycle tourers around the globe. They had ... Read more >
NORWAY | Monday, 22 Jul 2013 | Views [448]
We have almost completed the second leg of our Norway travels - Bergen to Oslo. The route has taken us through some dramatic countryside. Up a long, steep valley leading out of Bergen into waterfall country, and then high up across 'The Rallervagen', ... Read more >
NORWAY | Monday, 22 Jul 2013 | Photo Gallery
Norway photographs
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