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27 December 2019
Whilst on a long-distance cycling world tour my wife and I completed a cross-Australia leg which took us from Perth to Melbourne between October and December 2019. These notes were made after we arrived Melbourne along what we think is a really nice route which avoided nearly all traffic. It was perhaps one of the […]
20 December 2019
So, the weather is up to its old tricks again and things were forecast to be pretty hot at times over the next few days. As it happens our ‘late’ arrival into Adelaide and our extra day off in Robe helped and the hottest days were forecast to fall on our easier riding days… Wednesday […]
13 December 2019
Monday 9 December 19 – Policeman’s Point to Kingston SE – 96km We briefly saw our German neighbours as we were packing our bikes at 5.30am, but we didn’t really get a chance to properly chat, which was a shame. It was so hot yesterday afternoon that it was just too uncomfortable to be outside […]
4 December 2019
Thursday 28 November 19 – Port Augusta – 0km A quick note on food… We eat a lot! In general I eat much more than Martina, sometimes literally twice as much. Even so, I have lost weight and as early on as Slovakia I was down to 62kgs, which is 8-10kgs less than I would be […]
22 November 2019
A few people have commented that cycling across a desert must be boring – in fact a slang name for the Nullarbor is the ‘Nullarboring’, but we’re not too sure where this comes from as we have found it to be very interesting. Perhaps it is the speed at which we are travelling? In a motorised […]
14 November 2019
Friday 8 November 19 – Norseman to Fraser Range – 104km We’ve written about functional cycling before, which is when we have to get from A to B for whatever reason. Now we are in functional cycling mode because of the distances, and it’s quite lucky that there aren’t a load of things to see […]