Biking
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Day 7 – I make it to France with my bike, 25,255 days old.
I arrived in St Malo with 15 Belgium Harley Davidsons just before midday, Condor had bought the start time forward by 2 hours because one of the boats engines had failed, apparently they needed to make sure it would catch the tide to dock in St Malo. I couldn’t easily change my booking at the F1 Hotel so…
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Day 6 – A days holiday in a holiday in retirement and 25,254 days old
Due to the vagaries of the monopoly supplier of ferries to Jersey, Condor Ferries, there was no ferry to St Malo today 🙁 So an official holiday was declared by me. With the unexpected day here I decided to revisit the North coast, this time dropping down into the coves and also practising the Boulay bay…
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Day 5 a whirlWINDY tour of Jersey on my 25,253 day.
What a wet and wild night that was, thank goodness it was only my bike outside. After a much better nights sleep, on a firmer bed I had a gorgeous scrambled egg breakfast and left The Village b&b to a windy but dry morning. I freewheeled down the hill and biked to St Aubin to…
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Trip Day 4 – Weymouth to St. Lawrence (Jersey). Life Day 25,252
After yesterdays faux pas of riding to Weymouth to find the ferry had moved to Poole. I escaped by taking the 7.23 train from Weymouth back to Poole, by the time the train arrived in Poole there were 15 bikes squeezed into our compartment! Gmaps once again came up trumps to navigate the maze of cycleways…
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Day 3 Winchester to Weymouth – 25,251 days old and still pedalling
Oh boy what a glorious cock up today was 🙁 🙁 I arrived in Weymouth after 9 hours on the road to find no ferries have left here for over a year 🙁 They now run from Poole 🙁 🙁 where I was a few hours ago……. The day started OK although starting of up a steepish…
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Day2 Em’s Place to Winchester 25,250 days old
Phew what a scorcher as the tabloids used to say! with the temperature n the thirties, a bit like riding in South Africa / Cuba except for the traffic and awful state of the roads. After a bad night’s sleep, the Turkish food did not agree with me leaving me with an urgent call to…
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Day 1 of bike ride at 25,249 days old
I finally set off from home at 12.34, according to Moves, on my latest bike ride heading towards Weymouth to get the ferry to Jersey and then St Malo. Hopefully getting to Ibiza and Morocco. Todays ride ended at 18.10 at my daughter’s flat in London after a pretty exhausting 52 miles at 10.9mph. Perhaps…
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The next little ride.
With Emily’s wedding, even though I say it myself, successfully completed last Saturday I’m now free to do a decent autumn ride in this brilliant weather. I’ve never been to Ibiza, which is very surprising given my love of trance music and equally I’ve never done the Channel Islands especially Jersey. So I’m thinking of biking…
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Helping to promote Alan’s tours
I now appear on Alan’s tours website here:- http://www.alantours.co.za/listing/geoff_21022016 Unfortunately the link doesn’t work on mobile devices as it redirects to their mobi.alantours.co.za website and strips the last bit of the url 🙁 🙁
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Africa biking trip stats
Here’s my little spreadsheet of the 1,981 miles of biking I did with links to the Strava files:- Africa biking trip Trip Totals 1,981 73,790 3,170 Daily average, biking days 62 2,306 99 Bike Day # Day Date Place (link to Strava) Accomodation Distance (Miles) Ascent (feet) Distance Km Night 1 Thursday 18-Feb-2016 Heathrow at…