Russia
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Volga ride Ples to Kineshma
Tuesday 17th July 2018 I woke up at stupid’o clock and at to wait till 7.30 for breakfast finally departing the Volga Volga hotel at 8.10 after strapping the bag on securely, a short downhill ride and I was at the river again but no boatman or anyone else around 🙁 a van driver said…
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RCTC Kostroma to Ples
Monday 16 July 2018 My final day with the 22 Golden Tour folks, after today I’m on my own in Russia! We left Kostroma just after 8am after a good chain oiling up session after yesterday’s adventures. For once in Russia the road was in reasonable condition giving me hope of getting into some decent…
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RCTC ride Vyatskoe to Kostroma
Sunday 15 July 2018 Another day of potholed roads and sandy tracks this time with the added spice of off roading down flooded ruts and crossing a large flooded section of land by motorised punt but all very exciting 🙂 I slept well and the breakfast was decent the first 1km of road was fine…
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RCTC ride Yaroslavl to Vyatskoe
Saturday 14th July 2018 I slept OK in the Yaroslavl IBIS hotel the breakfast was a veritable feast of choices and they had a real coffee machine as opposed to the chicory instant stuff that’s been in most places hence why I’ve been mostly drinking black tea. We departed at 9am and explored the junction…
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RCTC ride Demino to Yaroslavl
Friday 13 July 2018 After a record breaking sleep for me of just under 7 hours in the comfortable room I made my way over to the cafe for breakfast, the heavy rain stopping just in time – so far we are amazing lucky with the weather. In the cafe it was disappointing to find…
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RCTC ride from Myshkin to Rybinsk and Demino
Thursday 12 July 2018 I didn’t sleep to well in the chalet maybe because of the huge thick pillow or because I was sharing a room with 3 other guys although it was interesting to use Sergey’s wrist blood pressure monitor 146/76 🙁 Once again Svetlana had prepared breakfast this time a wheat porridge with…
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RCTC Russia tour Borisoglebsky to Uglich & The Volga
A good weather day with only a brief shower around midday and warm temperature we were on the road to Uglich for 10 hours or so but only riding for 4.5 hours to cycle the 53miles. Sergey’s rear axle snapped in two on his Russian bike and Alexander had a mishap which meant a short…
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RCTC tour – Voronino to Borisoglebsky
I woke upto a thunderstorm and heavy rain on this our first days cycling on the RCTC Golden Ring tour After my breakfast of porridge and what they called an omelette but more like a slice of cake in appearance it was time to reassemble the bike. There seemed to be a lack of urgency…
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Transfer to Voronino
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…
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Another adventure starts
Well the adventure had a poor start as whilst waiting for the airport taxi at 7am I discovered my flight was at 8.35 not the midday I thought 🙁 with many expletives muttered I finally got through to BA to change my flight for Sunday at huge expense. I decided to go to the airport…