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Bathing

Wild camping for 5 nights our biggest concern is water, not wifi…..hence the limited blog posts.(the written diary is filling up and will post soon). In the mean time I bath in the numerous animal troughs to escape the stink and heat….up to 40 degrees on bike computer. It’s bloody …

Raging nature

We were resorted to pushing our bikes, our luggage, downhill! The damn wind, it terrified me, all over the road, standing still on the verge, trucks sucked us into their air stream. A straight line was impossible. At first we pushed on the incline, then unnerved, wobbling, on the flats, …

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What I think about when cycling

What I think about when I am cycling ….seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven…..seventy two, seventy three….it’s an incline and its like a furnace, my mind wanders I don’t remember beginning to count, seven, eight,nine, ten, eleven…..eighty eight…..counting the repetition of the pedals. I never finish counting and seams I never …

GRUBBS

I have had the fortune of traveling many parts if the world experiencing contemporary dance and theatre. Gypsy Roma Urban Balkan Beats are an absolute blessing to stumble upon and this group of very talented youth speak for them selves. I don’t understand a word but they have really moved …

Safe

Thanks for various emails and Facebook. There is a rather large body of water coming towards us in Budapest. We are sensible and safe and dry from below. If needs be we will deviate from the Danube River and continue towards Belgrade with an update soon. X

Bugs

Bugs have become part of our lives on a daily basis. Cycling to the tranquility of rural Europe one of us frequently coughs and hacks and splutters, not dissimilar a sound to dislodging ones lungs as we try desperately not to swallow a flying creature. We have not lost all …

Fall from Euphoria

Day 51 Sunday 12/05/13 Leaving any large town or city is difficult, navigating out without having to follow major roads. Prague was no different despite discovering a bike route all the way to Vienna, a Czech map and apparently signage “the green way” to help us along. Sunday being the …