Tarifa To Nordkapp: 5,000 Km Down, 2,500 Km To Go…
Here are the updated statistics after today’s wonderful ride through south-western Sweden. Tomorrow I cycle into the final country, Norway, but it’s a big one…
Cycling Day 65: Myggenรคs To Lysekil
Click here to see the detailed statistics of today’s cycle. Last night I saved from you the disturbing news that (brace yourself), my third pair of reading glasses spontaneously snapped. Bizarrely, this is exactly what happened to the second pair. I was just sitting there when… crack! Even […]
Tarifa To Nordkapp: Route Planning Gets Interesting… And Hot?
It’s a while since I sat down to look at a map like this. Heading for Lysekil today and then, is that a heatwave being celebrated in the headline? I think so…
Cycling Day 64: Gothenburg To Myggenรคs
Click here to see the detailed statistics of today’s cycle. Hotel all-you-can-eat breakfasts can be useful on a long cycling trip but I think this morning my IBIS fill up put me in a lethargic mood from the start. I wouldn’t say that I was on a go […]
Rest Day 12: Gothenburg / Gรถteborg, Sweden
A wander around the city to begin with… …followed by a visit to the Volvo Round-The-World Yacht Race final event just to the north of the river. Perhaps I should consider sailing as my next ‘adventure’ activity. I have previous after my little jaunt on the Mediterranean with […]
Cycling Day 63: Ugglarp To Gothenburg
Click here to see the detailed statistics of today’s cycle. Every epic cycle trip requires at least one epic day of cycling and yesterday was, probably, that day. 169 km. Not quite the 270 km that I cycled from Tarragona to Valencia back in the summer of 2013 […]
Cycling Day 62: Bรฅstad To Ugglarp
Click here to see the detailed statistics of today’s cycle. Various things put me in a grumpy mood this morning. The internet still wasn’t working (campsite or 3G), I was looking at at a half hour wait for the campsite reception to open so that could pay, and […]
Cycling Day 61: Helsingรธr To Bรฅstad
Click here to see the detailed statistics of today’s cycle. Bรฅstad. The Rough Guide to Sweden sees fit to give the pronunciation: /bow-sta/. It didn’t prevent me from smirking when I saw the town on the map this morning when still in Denmark and choosing it as my […]
