Biking
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Cycling The Elbe Day 4 – Dresden to Riesa
The rain finally caught up with me and after yesterdays miserable looking folks it was good to see so many smiling Germans, they obviously enjoy been out in the wet. I was in low energy mode after 7 days in the saddle, Strava reckons I’ve biked 367.8miles in 31h 34m and pedalled up 8,892feet in the…
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Elbe biking day 3 – Usti to Dresden
The much vaunted rainy day turned out to be bright & sunny as I went down to a hearty omelette breakfast in the Pivobar Hotel restaurant. Several cups of coffee later and a Facetime call to Sally (since once again 3 kept me locked out of the cellular network) and off I went past the beautiful…
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Elbe route Day 2 – Melnik to Usti via Terezin
After a wonderful sunrise awakening it was down to a very cheesy breakfast. It was drizzling as I fixed the front wheel back on after it’s puncture repair but that soon cleared away as I zoomed down the hill back onto The Elbe. It was staggering to see the height of the floods on 14th…
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Day 1 – Prague to Melnik on The Elbe river trail.
I arrived in Prague at 9.30am on a gorgeous sunny morning. Fully refreshed after over 8 hours sleep on the train. Fitbit said I was restless for 32mins and awake for 4mins of that time 🙂 Biking is good for sleeping! Prague was glorious although totally rammed with tourists, think Kings Parade. I really loved…
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Getting to the start in Prague..
Once I’d decided to bike The Elbe (thanks Sandra for the idea) I needed to get the bike & me to Prague. I didn’t fancy the aeroplane way so with a bit of research I discovered from The Man in Seat 61 that there was a overnight sleeper train from Amsterdam to Prague coupled with…
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Cycling the Elbe & Vitava rivers
Over 4 months later and I’m back here 🙂 Although I notice over 40 folks a day still visit the site to check out my Scarpa boots posts etc. My next little bike trip is now planned and I leave next Tuesday to get the overnight ferry from Harwich to Hook of Holland it’s 70 miles to…
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Statistical end to my SE Asia bike trip
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…
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Klulang to Singapore Island
After nearly falling down one of the open drains that Malaysia specialize in I had my egg roti and said farewell to Sabine who was cycling onto Mersing for the ferry to Tioman. My road was hilly, wide and quiet for the first half to Highway 1, all be it deadly monotonous Sime Darby plantations.…
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Muar to Kluang on Geoff’s SE Asia ride
Muar is a delightful working town loads of real shops including a great bike shop who sold me a Panasonic inner tube for 10 Ringgits but didn’t stock puncture repair kits. I started the day with some lovely egg roti’s at The Soup House, joined later by Sabine. As we were finishing the French couple…
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Malacca to Muar on Geoff’s SE Asia tour
The Mullah woke me up by blasting his prayer of the day at me, once awake the incessant pounding of the rain kept me up. I met Sabine loading up her bike at daylight downstairs and we agreed to hang on for the rain to clear, since it was only a 30 mile day. It…