Let’s do a little Agile Cycling and have a retrospective on our ride. For the none technical readers a retro is a time at the end of a coding period where the team gets together to discus and …
We woke up this morning with the bike still outside, and even nicely sheltered from the overnight rain.
But it’s with a heavy heart that we must say that we’re scratching from the event😞. …
This morning we pried ourselves out of the lovely cosy apartment in Leige. Wearing our clean nice smelling kit, Ok maybe just less bad smelling.
Last night was fantastic, there is a lot to be said for …
After a long day yesterday, we set off a little later, combining with a trip to the Lidl opposite for breakfast coffee and road snacks.
Within 10mins we had cycled to the French/Belgium border. There …
It’s fair to say that the last couple of days have got me down a little. The rain in Paris put a real dampener on my mood, my clothes and little used camping equipment. Along with the punctures. …
A lazy start to the day, after a serious discussion about timings; a friend has calculated we would need to do 255km a day to get to North Cape, and our longest day stands at 165km; it just wouldn’t …
Rain marked the start, middle and end of today. After pushing ourselves yesterday we decided to have an easy morning, not leaving the hotel until 9am.
It was raining quite heavily.
We joined back up …
A anxious 7am start from the ‘hotel’; in reality it was a room with a shower, and shared toilet; also with no towels, shower gel or loo roll! The bikes also got left outside, so we were both a bit …
Another early start today, but onto a lovely smooth flat canal side path. We were able to make steady progress zipping along at 20kph.
Today was a day of ups and downs both literally and figuratively.
We started out from Lausanne at 7, quickly refinding the route where we left it yesterday, then heading north west towards France. …