travel blog
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Grand Union Canal jaunt – Day 1
Finally, halfway through the year, the apartment sale is finally totally complete and I’m able to start travelling again albeit currently restricted to shanks pony as having 1/3 of my prostate removed in the HoLEP operation 3 weeks ago makes it inadvisable to do long bumpy bike rides for a while. I decided to stick…
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Tenerife & La Gomera Walking Holiday
Sally and I decided that it was about time we gave the two wheels a rest and give the Scarpa boots & Leki poles an airing 🙂 Sally’s criteria was it had to be warm and hilly! Since Mr T would only allow her two weeks of and it was November we came up with the Canary…
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Hamburg
Nothing much to report today, as if there is any day 🙂 A rather pleasant time pushing the very aptly named Smilla (9 months old) with beautiful ‘pausbackem‘ apple cheeks in Danish or for me chubby chops 🙂 around the Alster river lake for a couple of hours. I refound the Jody bike shop and…
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Lazing on Lanta Island
In fact to be more precise; a lazy day on and by the magnificent beach of Klong Dao near Saladan Town. I took a barefoot walk to the far end of the beach where I had a fresh coconut 🙂 then it was back to the Bee Garden for a two hour massage by the beach the…
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Bangkok booty
After, for me, a record breaking 4 nights at the ultra deluxe Windsor Suites Hotel I’m moving south towards Singapore tomorrow. The long delay was due to V.Siam Optical waiting for my replacement prescription glasses which after 4 days duly arrived today, not particularly cheap at £163 for varifocal adaptive glasses but wow are they…
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River Kwai one day trekking tour
Yesterday was another of my tourist days. Very tiring too, we covered 270 miles via minibus, train, boat & elephant 🙂 but no biking. Our first stop was Kancchanaburi military cemetery dedicated to the 6,981 folks killed whilst building this part of The so called “Death Railway” a startlingly high number from Cambridge who were…
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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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Transylvania Green Way walking tour.
Today (30th Oct 2013)I ventured out of Bucharest to go with Mihal on his two day Green Way walking tour to Transylvania. We left on the train in the morning with our first stop at Sinaia to visit the Royal Palace of Peleș Castle I’m sure culture vultures could easily spend a week here, for me, I…
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Bucharest
After all the biking I’m pleased to have settled in one hotel for 5 nights. The Rembrandt is perfect in many ways; Fast, really fast, internet, Amazingly good breakfasts with unlimited gorgeous coffee and fresh fruit salad 🙂 Spacious room with desk to work at. Great staff Best location, step out into downtown old town…
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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…