I forwarded Jean-Marie’s detailed maps to my two contacts in Australia and received the following replies: AndrewI only have a brief minute to reply, but thank you ever so much for these maps!!!! Outstanding details!!! I’ll reply in more details shortly. As we are overdue some enthusiastic conversation […]
My countdown clock on the vote widgit keeps me informed of the days as they count down. It doesn't seem very long ago that it was at 700 plus. Too tired to write more. I am already in bed sending this update via the mobile. Yawn…
Jean-Marie Vion has come up trumps with the map that you can find in the previous post. He writes: Bonjour Andrew,Voici l’itinรฉraire qui ร รฉtรฉ fait pour une de mes connaissance pour le trajet Bruxelles – Aoste (Italie). Peut-รชtre intรฉressant pour toi.Jean-Marie Indeed it is Jean-Marie! Thanks. I’ll […]
Brussels to Aosta
James Bowthorpe has, I see, beaten Mark Beaumont’s record. He arrived home in Balham yesterday after 175 days cycling 18,000 miles. I should really add him to my list of great cycling adventurers. He has a website of course and due respect to him for having completed the […]
My commute home continues to be faster and faster! I’m down to 21 minutes and 30 seconds. Amazing. The journey in the other direction is proving more difficult to improve upon: it hasn’t budged since the 18th August. Anyway, more news from Jean-Marie in Belgium. He’s sent me […]
Ian Hendry has invested in a new bike and I am very jealous! It looks so beautiful… Click here to read about how and why he chose the Trek 1.5. Click here to see the thing in all its beauty on the Trek website. At least we won […]
Just been using this map and the information in the previous post to update the Google Map a bit. It’s a long term project to finalise the route…. Note the possibility of either following the route 1 (Ciclopista del Sole) or route 3 (Via dei Pellegrini – the […]
The following are the key details from the ECF EuroVรฉlo map about EV5 with identified cycle routes in red, linked to sources of information on the net:England (180 km)Reading to London – NCN 4London to Canterbury to Dover – NCN 1Northern France (140 km)CalaisCanal de Calais to Saint […]
I do actually know more about the route of the EuroVรฉlo 5 than I thought: I have just dug out the ECF EuroVรฉlo map itself and on the back is the following route description. “This is another pilgrim route, also called Via Romea Francigena leading from Canterbury to […]
“Ian invited you to join the Facebook group “Bugger off Facebook, it’s warm outside…!!”.” That was the email from Facebook. I joined but did point out on the group that I was not in Australia and that my days are getting colder. Although not today! Bright sunshine and […]
Perhaps it was the adrenalin boost from the receipt of an email from a disgruntled colleague just before cycling home, but I “smashed” my record time today by 45 seconds! Henley to Reading in 22 minutes 2 seconds.
I don’t end to have the time (or energy) to post mid-week in term term but today is an exception as it’s been a busy Puglia 2010 day. Recieved a couple of emails, one from Kevin Payne at CTC who has pointed me in the direction of someone […]
Frustrated in my efforts to find detailed information about the details of the EuroVรฉlo 5 route, I have gone to the top and just sent an email to the European Cyclists’ Federation asking for any updates.Rue Franklin281000 Brussels,Belgiumphone: +32 2 880 92 74fax: +32 2 880 92 75office@ecf.com […]
They forgot top tip number 1,001: think twice before buying this book, especially if you live in the UK or any country that drives on the left. I assume that the book was first published in America. No problem with this you may think until you read a […]
I went for a run a couple of weeks ago, I mentioned it here with a map of the route I take, but the following day I could hardly walk. Most muscles in my body ached and I had done something to my left foot – it felt […]
Calais-Brindisi
John Davies, the Audax cyclist from Willsden has emailed back with some more details of the Audax route from Calais to Brindisi. He writes: Attached is an article from the most recent edition of Arrivรฉe, the magazine of Audax UK. It doesn’t really give you much information about […]
