travel blog
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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…
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Corabia to Giurgiu on The Danube Bike Trail
Another grand day out and I’m pleased to say someone gave the truckers a day of! Perhaps they were attending all the weddings going on in the various villages I went through. No gales today just a pleasant light breeze although I still clocked up over 13mph for the 90+ miles I biked. The road…
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A fast day on the Danube bike trail – Calafat to Corabia
A great biking day especially with a gale force wind pushing me along, poor old boys coming the other day were walking their bikes. I did the 90 miles at an average speed of 15mph. Not bad for a loaded up touring bike ridden by a 66 year old 🙂 Today makes it that I…
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A long hard day on The Danube bike ride Severin to Calafat
The 23rd day of biking The Danube started with a bit of a disaster when I thought it would be a cool idea to pressure wash the derailleur to remove all the sand etc. With the first blast of water the top jockey sprocket flew across the yard 🙁 we found the sprocket, two washers…
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The difference a day makes – Day 22 – Mehedinti to Severin
After yesterdays superb cycling day, I woke up this morning to very low cloud & drizzle plus totally lacking energy. I would have stayed, but the internet was diabolical cutting in and out all the time. I set off into the wet, thankful for my Aldi cycling trousers as the temperature had plummeted to 12…