Africa
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End of Morocco bike trip. Lifeday 25,324
I’m returning home from Rabat today 76 days after leaving Cambridge. Although I’ve returned back to the UK a couple of times. Once from La Rochelle and once from Zaragoza both times with Ryanair. Total days in the saddle including the time when I was biking around Ibiza with Sally was 39 days and distance…
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Kenitra to Rabat. Lifeday 25,320
I woke up to the rain and finished my ride in the rain, in between I saw blue sky for perhaps 5 minutes. Thank goodness today was only a short ride of 24 miles and 559 feet of ascent as it just hammered down. The worse problem was the gigantic puddles everywhere, as my son…
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Larache to Kenitra. Lifeday 25,319
The weather forecast yesterday was so, so right 🙁 I awoke to very wet roads a very threatening sky and a wind that was going to be in my face all day long and a very long day at that. The breakfast at the neighbouring cafe was excellent 2 fried eggs, bread, coffee, orange juice…
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Tangier to Larache. Lifeday 25,318
Apparently I started on Twitter 10 years ago today 🙂 However, today was another toughie with a strong headwind most of the way plus I discovered Moroccan garages only sell fuel and oil no fridges full of cold drinks and chocolate 🙁 I did find one selling bottled water from a locked fridge. I guess…
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Tarifa to Tangier Lifeday 25,317
A lazy day as you can imagine, it’s not possible to cycle across the Straits of Gibraltar 🙂 Instead I took the €36 high speed ferry to do the 18 miles separating Europe from Africa. I had booked the Continental Hotel which overlooks the harbour in Tangier, easy to see but not so easy to…
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Helping to promote Alan’s tours
I now appear on Alan’s tours website here:- http://www.alantours.co.za/listing/geoff_21022016 Unfortunately the link doesn’t work on mobile devices as it redirects to their mobi.alantours.co.za website and strips the last bit of the url 🙁 🙁
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Africa biking trip stats
Here’s my little spreadsheet of the 1,981 miles of biking I did with links to the Strava files:- Africa biking trip Trip Totals 1,981 73,790 3,170 Daily average, biking days 62 2,306 99 Bike Day # Day Date Place (link to Strava) Accomodation Distance (Miles) Ascent (feet) Distance Km Night 1 Thursday 18-Feb-2016 Heathrow at…
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25090 A walking day at Victoria Falls
Wednesday 6th April I didn’t sleep at all well, maybe it was the excitement of visiting the Victoria Falls a childhood dream or maybe it was the bed! The previous evening had been pretty awful with all the locals dossing about watching football 🙁 plus a silly ticketing system at the bar. Unfortunately for me…
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25089 Biking Kasane to Victoria Falls
Tuesday, April 5, 2016 I left The Old House jut before 8am after the owner rescued the girl from faffing about on her ancient Windows PC trying to sort the bill out. The day started with a brisk headwind as you can see from the flags image and a climb of cause. Reaching the main…
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25088 Chobe River Excursion
Today was a rest day in Kasang catching up on my posts and getting my images online whilst my Botswana SIM card still works. The Old House b&b has a frontage onto The Chobe River just before it merges with The Zambezi. They offer a 3 hour river trip heading along the Chobe National Park.…