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The journal
Oh boy what a glorious cock up today was 🙁 🙁 I arrived in Weymouth after 9 hours on the road to find no ferries have left here for over a year 🙁 They now run from Poole 🙁 🙁 where I was a few hours ago……. The day started OK although starting of up a steepish […]
Phew what a scorcher as the tabloids used to say! with the temperature n the thirties, a bit like riding in South Africa / Cuba except for the traffic and awful state of the roads. After a bad night’s sleep, the Turkish food did not agree with me leaving me with an urgent call to […]
I finally set off from home at 12.34, according to Moves, on my latest bike ride heading towards Weymouth to get the ferry to Jersey and then St Malo. Hopefully getting to Ibiza and Morocco. Todays ride ended at 18.10 at my daughter’s flat in London after a pretty exhausting 52 miles at 10.9mph. Perhaps […]
With Emily’s wedding, even though I say it myself, successfully completed last Saturday I’m now free to do a decent autumn ride in this brilliant weather. I’ve never been to Ibiza, which is very surprising given my love of trance music and equally I’ve never done the Channel Islands especially Jersey. So I’m thinking of biking […]
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 🙁 🙁
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
Sat 2 April 2016 to Sun 3 April 2016 The larger than life character KG (Kgaga) appeared with his Toyota Land Cruiser to take me and my bike to the camping place near Savuti. We had an instant rapport especially since he is a carnivore and I a vegetarian but both Leo’s 🙂 Strange to be […]