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11 July 2018
We exited the campsite after our super glamping experience and literally turned right onto the Danube path and we on our way to Vienna, humming The Blue Danube as we cycled. It’s hard not to! Quite excited at the thought of another capital city as well as a few days off, and as Nigel said […]
4 July 2018
Awoke to the sound of a lawnmower at 6.30am – on a Saturday!! Seriously – who cuts grass at that time at the weekend??! Nothing else for it but an early start and we were genuinely sad to say goodbye to our fantastic little retreat in the hills. Started the day with a lovely downhill […]
28 June 2018
So after our visit to St Barbara’s cathedral it was home for an afternoon snooze – the luxury of a day off! Dinner was a wander into town for a pizza and on our return our hosts had left us a basket of fresh apricots from the tree outside our flat – More food for […]
24 June 2018
Off early with some trepidation as we planned to cross into the Czech Republic today. Planning a route that would avoid monster hills and busy roads was quite a challenge – but as always Master Navigator Birdsall did a fantastic job and we were mostly on quiet roads, which were quite hilly, but very manageable. […]
20 June 2018
Had a great night’s sleep in our very rural environment and a lie-in until 8am, but we were still on our way at 9.30 for a fairly uneventful day cycling – mainly through forest and a national park. We have decided that what we are missing in Poland some days is a proper coffee culture […]
14 June 2018
We left our rural retreat in hot and humid conditions for our 60km stint into Kraków where we had booked an apartment for 4 nights. The first 30km ride was in lovely lush countyside on quiet roads, but that changed as we got nearer the city, as did the weather. We got caught in one […]