Biking
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Halong Bay Tour
Whilst in Hanoi I decided to go on a package tour to Halong Bay after all the rave reviews from various folks I’ve met. Plus the shops were closed for Tet (Lunar new year). The HanoiMoment2 hotel arranged the trip: Overnight trip on the Aclass Opera Cruise with 01 deluxe cabin @ USD 149.00 per person x 2…
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Arrival in Vietnam & first day in Hanoi
I arrived at the Hanoi Moment2 Hotel just after midnight (5pm UK time) today after leaving Cambridge at 2.20pm on Sunday, so a pretty exhausting day, I didn’t get much sleep even though I had 3 seats on the 787 to myself. China Southern Airways was OK although they do fret about Lithium batteries in…
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The next adventure
Tonight I’m at Heathrow awaiting my night flight to Guangzhou and then onto Hanoi a total travelling time of about 24 hours. Tuesday should find me exploring Hanoi in search of a local SIM card and a bike. Yep I’m about to try and bike from Hanoi to Singapore in the 9 weeks I’ve given…
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The final mega bike ride route
Here is the final route that I biked created from a screenshot of my daily GPS files added together by the incredible Adze. My bike ride to Les Gets, Zurich and then the complete length of The Danube River a total of 3000 miles (4800km) or so. Here are the stats as made by Adze…
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and so to return
With Sulina been the end of the road waterway, it’s time to start my return to another adventure. I’ve been reading lots of good things on various blogs about Romania’s capital, Bucharest so I’m making that my next port of call. The ferry leaves Sulina at 7am so it was an early start to meet…
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Down the Danube from Tulcea to Sulina on a boat
The final 37km of the Danube Bike Trail has to be done by boat as there are no roads in the delta, although Ceausescu was intent on draining the region and making it farmland. There is an interesting website about it here The main river splits into three channels around Tulcea the North channel is…
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Final day of cycling on The Danube Bike Trail – Constanta to Tulcea
This was my 28th day of pedalling on The Danube Bike Trail. With today’s 93.5 miles it made my total mileage from Cambridge to be 2,996 miles of which 3,071km was on The Danube Bike Trail as outlined in Book1, Book2, Book3 & mostly Book4 (I stayed in Romania) of the Bikeline series It started by…
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Day off in Constanta
Tuesday 22nd October After yesterdays tough ride from Silistra on the Bulgarian)Romanian border I decided to take a day out and luxuriate in mv somewhat faded 5 star accommodation. I managed to get the data sorted with Vodafone on my iPhone, I think it broke because I tried calling the UK on my Romanian number. This…
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Day 27 on The Danube Bike Trail – Silistra to Constanza & The Black Sea
Well I made it to the Black Sea at Constanza, 80 days after leaving Cambridge having cycled 2,900 miles or so in total. I had a 2 week break in Les Gets and another 2 weeks in Hungary. Today was real tough from getting a once over on the Schengen Agreement by the Bulgarian border man…
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The roller coaster ride from Giurgiu to Silistra on The Danube-less bike trail
After my Romanian regulation cheese omelette for breakfast I departed leaving the smelly bathroom behind. Fortunately, even though Romania is Catholic, all the shops were open so I was able to stock up with choc bars & fruit. Isn’t it strange how France had a revolution to remove priests from power but to this day…