A brief ride through England
It’s been six months or so that I last sat on a heavily laden bicycle. Hoping that the first few days wouldn’t be too tiring and having said goodbye to everyone, I set off on the 28th March thus giving myself three days to make it to Harwich before catching the ferry to The Netherlands. […]
The long journey home
With my bags safely tucked away at the station, I cycled away to somewhere more appealing. I just wanted to find a small café bar or bistro where I could sit for a few hours whilst I waited for a suitable hour in order to go to the train station. I would then wait there […]
To Munich!
Cycling the last stretch from Austria to Germany Making my way north and towards the German border was super easy having just to follow the road signs towards Rosenheim and Munich. Even though I had no maps now, I did have a few screen captures from google saved to my kindle and so I always […]
Crossing the Alps and a date with a tooth doctor
You can’t cycle over the Alps with a mouth like that! When I woke the following morning, I had a lump the size of a golf ball in my mouth and I needed to get to dentist rather quickly. When I went downstairs to pay (a prospect I was dreading just a little), I found […]
Leaving idyllic Slovenia and onwards through Austria
Looking at the terrain ahead of me filled me with a kind of started realisation that the next ten days would be perhaps be the most challenging of the trip thus far. This was another reason for my prolonged stay in Ljubljana; I just didn’t want to move! So, let’s go and begin this challenge! […]
Back in Croatia and towards Slovenia. The land of Robin Hood
Having made my way through the border, I followed the road north past the famous Plitvicka National Park and on towards the town of Slunj. I had wanted to visit the park but it was a combination of factors that had stopped me in the end. I think it’s a world heritage site or something […]
Cycle touring through a wonderful land named Bosnia. What a surprise you are!
Having spent the night receiving some much needed energy and rest for my weary stumps, I set off in the morning with hope that I was indeed nearly over the pass. As it turned out, I was! I had slept about one kilometre from the top and after admiring the wonderful views, spent the morning […]
Heading north from Split. Croatia and onto Bosnia
With the formalities done and emails swapped between myself and Phillip, I made my way back along the highway towards Split before turning north and then west around the peninsula. The roads were treacherous with no hard shoulder whatsoever and so I had to cycle with extreme care. Just before turning west the road split […]
Leaving Italy to find myself in Croatia
After boarding the ferry, I joined the throngs of people at the café terrace at the rear of the ship to watch Italy slip away into the night. It was a quite lovely view but, as ever with any kind of port, the town was surrounded by cranes and the like but even so, it […]
Perugia, a party by a lake and a ramble on a vespa!
It was extremely nice to see Francesca as it had been a long time since we last met in Amsterdam. She looked like some kind of angel, being dressed head to toe in the most brilliant white but which I later understood to be her way of mourning for her dog. We walked through town, […]