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1 May 2018
Weather-wise it wasn’t really the start that we wanted as we left Stavanger – dull with some pretty big downpours. It was a public holiday, so the roads were really clear and we were up and out by just past 8am. It’s nice in a schadenfreude kind of way to see that other countries have […]
28 April 2018
The road (or bike path as it happens) to the port town of Hirtshals is long and very straight – have a look on a map and you’ll see that nit basically comes out of Aalborg and heads straight as an arrow north to Hirtshals for the best part of 70km. This was always going […]
23 April 2018
Well, no one caught us during our ‘rogue’ camping and we woke and sorted out our camp in the same way as we would have done in any other campsite – to be honest at this point if someone had told us to poke off we wouldn’t have minded as we’d already slept there and […]
18 April 2018
Right, firstly a couple of observations from our time with Miriam and Marc that we forgot to include earlier. During the journey through hell fire etc to get to their house (still no exaggeration!) we passed a house that had witch-type broomsticks sticking in the ground upright with a 30 on each of them – […]
15 April 2018
First of all, thanks to everyone who has messaged us, commented on the blog, emailed etc. As internet is a bit sporadic we haven’t been able to respond to them all, but we love getting them and read them all, so keep them coming please! We have been averaging 60-70km per day so far and […]
15 April 2018
After 12 consecutive days of cycling we have successfully made our way to our friends Miriam and Marc’s (along with kiddies Niamh and Connor) house to the north of Bremen. More on our visit here in a later blog. As we said, we crossed the border into Germany and the winds didn’t let up, in […]