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Lifeday 25,690 Taiwan bike ride finished & bike reboxed
Oh dear no posts during the Taiwan bike trip 🙁 and the bike is all boxed up and ready to fly tomorrow. I’ve had an excellent time apart from my wretched cold and the daily rain showers with occasional strong winds but it’s lovely and warm so those discomforts didn’t matter 🙂 I did one complete…
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Ride-Swim-Ride to Letchworth Outdoor Pool
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…
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Riding to Oxford from Cambridge
After yesterday’s upset with its subsequent threatening email from Jesus Green Pool and the rather Orwellian named BETTER. I’ve decided to abandon swimming there for this year. Which now leaves me more time for cycling and exploring other swimming locations with, maybe, better lifeguards & showers. So today I decided to retrace, more or less,…
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Biting the bullet in Japan
Thursday 27th April 2017 Tokyo to Onomichi [sgpx gpx=”/wp-content/uploads/gpx/Track_2017-04-27 143816.gpx”] 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…
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Cycling Japan – Iwatsuki to Tokyo!
Tuesday 25 April 2017 [sgpx gpx=”/wp-content/uploads/gpx/Track_2017-04-25 133429.gpx”] Strava is here Pictures here Hotel Toyoko Nihonb Fine windy day and lovely ride down Arakawa River & Canal
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Biking Nakatsugawa to Ina
[sgpx gpx=”/wp-content/uploads/gpx/Track_2017-04-21 195530.gpx”] Strava is here Pics here Hotel: Ebisu Hotel, Ina Really tough day following the Magomejuku Post Trail for most of the day then through the major tunnels more than one mile long each. Did usual trick of backtracking after stopping 🙁 but only a mile or two today.
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Cycling Japan Hikone to Inuyama
Wednesday 19th April 2017 First apologies to those who are expecting the old full-length posts of old that take an hour or more to do. [sgpx gpx=”/wp-content/uploads/gpx/Track_2017-04-19 164446.gpx”] Todays Strava Today’s Pics Today’s weather: very blustery Ride highlights: having coffee with a group of oldies in the delightful village of Kashibara Accommodation: Inuyama Guesthouse Jesse…
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Cycling Japan – Kyoto to Hikone
Tues 18 April 2017 [sgpx gpx=”/wp-content/uploads/gpx/Track_2017-04-18 171102.gpx”] Today’s Strava Todays Dropbox pics High headwind 16 degrees no rain Cycled with Jesse from Penang, Malayasia Hotel APA Hikoneminami
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Three days biking from Hof to Higashihiroshima upto lifeday 25,460
Tuesday 11th April I apologise to my regular readers for the brief hiatus due mainly to me feeling distinctly unwell sneezing, producing voluminous mucus & feeling tired, I was going to have a rest day in Hiroshima today but I fell out with the hotel I booked (they wouldn’t store the bike) and the hotel I did…
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First day in Japan – Fukuoka
The crossing from Busan was very smooth and I slept all the way. The immigration officer looked askance at me and wanted to see my flight home details and how was I going to get to Tokyo? Good question I thought! I tried to get some Yen in the terminal with my plastic but no…