Month: September 2016
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Trip Day 4 – Weymouth to St. Lawrence (Jersey). Life Day 25,252
After yesterdays faux pas of riding to Weymouth to find the ferry had moved to Poole. I escaped by taking the 7.23 train from Weymouth back to Poole, by the time the train arrived in Poole there were 15 bikes squeezed into our compartment! Gmaps once again came up trumps to navigate the maze of cycleways…
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Day 3 Winchester to Weymouth – 25,251 days old and still pedalling
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…
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Day2 Em’s Place to Winchester 25,250 days old
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…
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Day 1 of bike ride at 25,249 days old
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…
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The next little ride.
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…