Month: March 2018
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The Diners,
The dining scene is an upmarket first-floor restaurant in downtown Lisbon with tablecloths linen napkins unpretentious and really pleasant. My first visit was 2 nights ago when it was totally packed and they squeezed me in on a bar stool. Tonight it was just a few of us I sat down in a central location facing…
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Overview of my Iberian Coast to Coast Cycle ride
For my regular readers, all the previous posts are updated with Flickr links Its been a reasonable 1,000-mile bike ride at an average of 56 miles (90km) a biking day (it’s the first question everyone asks me). Things I’ve maybe learnt: a) It’s hopelessly impractical to do long distance train journeys in Europe with a touring…
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A day exploring Coimbra
Tuesday, February 27th, 2018 Following a previous comment on this blog from my friend and former wealth creator Pete. I decided to visit Coimbra the site of Portugals oldest university founded in 1290, Not Europes which is Bologna in Italy founded in 1088, btw Cambridge is 1209. I decided, thankfully, to leave the bike in…
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A DNF ride to end Portugal cycling.
Monday 26th February 2018 I liked Lost Lisbon Hotel & Casa de Pasto restaurant in Portugal so much, even with the walk to the toilet, that I decided to stay here all week and return home on Friday for Sally’s Cambridge Half Marathon this upcoming weekend. Monday had rain forecast in the afternoon so I…