riding bikes and doing other things
Part 9 of this series moves the lockdown lookback onto 2016. This was another year that turned out to be a pretty decent biking year and saw the addition of another new bike to the garage … it was the year that saw my wife return to ride pillion on a bike for the first […]
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This post goes back to a 5,000 mile European trip that I did in 2015 and that I had mentioned in the previous Lockdown Lookback Part 7. In some respects it was a trip of two parts – the first part was with three friends making our way from the Spanish port of Bilbao, […]
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I wrote in the previous Blog post about what a miserable year 2019 had been from a biking perspective I alos said that despite that I was already looking forward to 2020. All things being equal I will have made a reasonable recovery and a decent level of progress that will allow me to enjoy […]
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Here’s Part 3 of the write up following our recent road trip in Spain and Portugal, if you missed Part 1 you can read it here and if you can read Part 2 of the update here. After leaving Mirando de Douro we headed out of Portugal into the Province of Salamanca, with the small […]
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Part 2 If you missed Part 1 of the Blog post following our recent trip to Spain and Portugal you can read it here. In that post I mentioned that after spending some time in the Picos mountains we headed off to Galicia, traveled to Santiago and the Atlantic coast and then headed down to […]
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For the back end of my trip I had decided to spend two nights in the pretty German town of Saarburg, close to the Luxembourg border leaving me with just one final stop over that I planned to make somewhere reasonably close to the Dunkirk for the DFDS ferry home a few days later. The […]
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After staying in Bad Wiessee in Germany I decided to head for Lake Konstanz and booked a place in the small German village of Bematingen. It was another decent day, pleasant roads and easy and relaxed riding in good weather. By this time I definitely had started to get that feeling that I was at […]
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In my previous trip post I wrote about riding along the Dalmation Coast, past Dubrovnik and onto the pretty seaside town of Cavtat. I stayed in Cavtat for one night before heading back up the coast and then into the mountains – my destination was the small town of Ubdina in the Lika region of […]
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After my overnight stay down near Novo mesto in Slovenia I decided to head into Croatia. By this stage of the trip the weather had certainly warmed up with some fabulous vistas set off by wonderful blue sky. During the first part of the day I was by and large on empty and quiet roads […]
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I’ve been back just over a week now from my most recent ride on my Z1000 SX, where I set off without much of a plan. I had got dates in the diary a while back when I booked the P&O ferry from Hull to Rotterdam and a return (DFDS) ferry from Dunkirk to Dover […]
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