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Shops and toilet rolls

Monday 24th June…..Li is sick. 2 days prior on our 1st whole day in Romania we discovered banks, shops and accommodation are all to be far more scarce than in the other rural areas we have travelled through. We had enough cash and food for a few days, also carrying …

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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 …

Welcome to Bohemia

We were hoping to arrive in Czech Republic the day we left Passau, the Austrian climbs, no detailed map and some wrong turns up very steep hills, hills leading to know where, resulted in one night by the river in Haslach Im Muhlkrreis. The camp ground was closed but exhausted …

Langres

Langres. I like this town…this walled city of medieval and classical history…..even the hill I could not cycle…..not with my luggage and possibly not ever. Most of all I love our pitch, our tent dwarfed by the Navarre Tour hundreds of years old and anywhere else, fenced off, it’s barred …