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Continue reading →: Day 3 – Zajecar to Kladovo: Down to the Danube49 miles (79 km) – Total so far: 145 miles (233 km) Away just after 8 on a morning already in the 20s. Zajecar was a good overnight visit, with decent food in the hotel restaurant and a couple of local dark beers. Onwards on the Iron Curtain Trail and after…
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Continue reading →: Day 2 – Pirot to Zaječar: Iron Curtain Bike RouteFriday August 9, 2019, 76 miles (122 km) – Total so far: 96 miles (154 km) Away at 8:20 this morning. Embarrassingly I delayed Karin faffing around with bike loading.We knew it was going to get hot, the TV said 38C last night, but it went higher than that, 40 maybe…
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Continue reading →: Day 1 – Kalotina (BG) to Pirot (SRB): Into a heatwaveThursday August 8, 2019, 20 miles (32 km) – Total so far: 20 miles (32 km Putting the bike together in Sofia airport baggage, with some welcome AC, it’s pretty hot outside,Travel was all on time, it’s never easy though. Left last night on an 8:15 pm train to Edinburgh. Transfer…
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Continue reading →: Day 36 – Getting home – summary and overall mapThanks to Markus at Velorado bikes it was no problem to get a bike box.Rather than drag / lift the box 500 metres to the underground I opted for a taxi to the airport, so that part was easy.I managed to remember also that the luggage trolleys at Manchester need…
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Continue reading →: Day 35 – Nuremberg4 miles (6 km) – Total so far: 1,568 miles (2,523 km) There’s a beer festival on.I may sound like a grumpy old man, but it’s not really my sort of thing.It’s absolutely packed with people, many celebrating stags and hens and suchlike.Each brewery has a tent and seating and serves…
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Continue reading →: Day 34 – Altendorf to Nuremberg71 miles (114 km) – Total so far: 1,564 miles (2,517 km) A good place to stay. Excellent food and hospitality, just a pity about the beer. They only had one, just a lager. Everyone seems to like it though…except me. Back into the Schwarze Laber radweg until the town of…
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Continue reading →: Day 33 – Demazlice (Czech Republic) to Altendorf (Germany)42 miles (68 km) – Total so far: 1,493 miles (2,403 km) It was 7:30 pm when I got in last night, so a quick rinse off and a bite to eat.We are only a 40 minute drive from Plzen so no surprise that that was the beer on offer. I…
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Continue reading →: Day 32 – Borová Lada to Demazlice71 miles (114 km) – Total so far: 1,451 miles (2,335 km) A sparkling autumn morning in the Sumava mountains, with a frost last night.Temperatures here can get as low as minus 30 , the coldest place in the Czech Republic. Up and down rather more than you would call rolling,…
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Continue reading →: Day 31 – Frymburk to Borová Lada55 miles (89 km) – Total so far: 1,380 miles (2,221 km) Leaving Lipmo lake this morning.Very basic Czech hospitality and cheap. 25 km up and down along the lake to Nova Pec, then crossing the river Vltara that flows into it. The winter firewood stacks look so good.This is the…
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Continue reading →: Day 30 – Rohrbach (Austria) to Lojzova Paseka (Czech Republic)26 miles (42 km) – Total so far: 1,325 miles (2,132 km) 9 o’clock start today after the bakery in Rohrbach town.I’ve just a short ride over the hills into Czech Republic. Despite its short length today was a tremendous day of cycling.Picture postcard Austrian countryside and villages on paths and…
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Alice asked the Cheshire Cat, who was sitting in a tree, ‘What road do I take?’ The cat asked, ‘Where do you want to go?’ ‘I don’t know,’ Alice answered. ‘Then,’ said the cat, ‘it really doesn’t matter, does it?’
Lewis Carroll
