travel blog
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Boy, what a whopper!
Toughest hill of the trip today, especially after biking already 45 miles 🙁 Straight up 1300 feet the Strava elevation says it all: The ride from Zurich to Donaueschingen started with riding through vast construction sites before the airport, very reminiscent of when I visited Dubai! After the airport it turns into a gorgeous cycleway along…
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Pumpkin art & swimming at Jucker’s
Yet another grand day organised by @planetjones & his partner. Maybe they should get into the tourism business 🙂 Today was just a train journey from the local station to Seegrãben followed by a short but steep walk to Jucker Farmart and it’s fantastic models all created with straw & pumpkins it reminded me a bit…
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A Grand Day Out
I had an excellent surprise yesterday, my nephew @planetjones had purchased a Switzerland day pass valid on ALL public transport anywhere in Switzerland. It was a promotion been run at the CooP. So it was decided to visit the Queen of Mountains – Mount Riga. This meant bus travel to Zurich main station then rail…
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Aarau to Zurich
First apologies for the whinge about lack of readers in my previous post. I totally forgot what a sophisticated bunch of followers that I have! with Feedly reporting 71 folks have signed up to my RSS feed plus on Friday my readership leapt to 191 readers according to Jetpack. The ride started of as a…
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Biel to Aarau
Obviously my bike ride is loosing interest to my followers and in fact the readership is now back to folks doing searches that bring up my old posts. e.g. Scarpa hiking boots received as many hits yesterday as my latest post and my Silva Pedometer post from 6 years ago not far behind. Enough of…
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Yverdon to Biel
Firstly, for those of a curious disposition I’ve now biked 894 miles with 86 hours in the saddle spread over 15 biking days (average 59 miles per day),. My moving average has been 10.40mph. Plus I’ve had 11 rest days in my Les Gets apartment 🙂 Today I started later than normal it was sunny with…
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Biking from Les Gets to Yverdon les Bains
A bright and earlyish start from Les Gets on my streamlined bike sans panniers so considerably lighter and better balanced, I think. According to Strava I did the 28 miles to Evian in 90 minutes so I easily made the 10.10 sailing to Lausanne. Interestingly the price at £20 was exactly the same as crossing…
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Spot the difference?
Spot the difference? I thought it would be interesting to compare my two rides to Les Gets. The first ride was in August 2009 where I rode the 767 miles and in the saddle for 72.6 hours over the 10 days it took. This time in August 2013 I travelled…
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Cambridge to Les Gets 2013 route
Using the Adze programme I stitched together all the GPS trails for my ride to Les Gets. Each day is given a different colour. There are a total of 25,471 points over the 761 miles (about 53 yards apart) Clicking on the map will download a file that you can open in Google Earth taking…
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Day 13 – Final day into Les Gets
I finally made it to my apartment in Les Gets 13 days after leaving Cambridge & with 76 hours perched on my Brooks B17 saddle. Total distance covered this time 774 miles (1237km) which means when moving I was averaging about 10mph. The day was very tough for me, as the profile shows: I’m not going…