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13 December 2025
Wednesday 26 Nov – Wednesday 3 Dec 25 This is not really a cycling-related blog, but continues our travel diary. Our Home Exchange hosts’ son let us borrow his car during our stay in Australia and up until now we’d only used for grocery shopping. We bundled our bikes and bags into the back of […]
30 October 2025
Sunday 19 October 2025 – Hawker to Adelaide One final thing that we did in Hawker before going to bed last night was to take our binoculars and find the darkest part of the town so that we could do some star gazing. And a beautiful, clear night it was too and we could see […]
23 June 2023
21 June 23 – Buncrana to Moville – 89km Well we couldn’t sit still for too long, so after a break of a week we decided to take the bikes out again and ‘finish’ our journey properly by going all the way up to Malin Head, Ireland’s most northerly point, and around the Inishowen peninsula. […]
5 June 2023
2 May 23 – Westport to An Ceann Ramhar – 82km We had a reasonably slow get-up, packed the bikes and said goodbye to Westport. Really enjoyed our stay here and it’s definitely somewhere that we will come back to in the future and would recommend as a place to visit. The first couple of […]
26 May 2023
So it’s probably worth saying something about our planning process so far. As we have found in the past, our plans never survive past the first few hours and this trip is no exception. Initially, when we arrived in Rosslare, we’d planned to go to Cork, but the accommodation in the city proved, at first, […]
18 May 2023
Firstly, something we missed out of the last report. In the last campsite in Wales, we met a guy called Will who was pedalling around the coast of the U.K. for charity. Not that unusual apparently. However, Will was cycling a Brompton folding commuter bike and pulling a trailer, which to me is hard as […]