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Planning ahead

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 […]

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Wilkommen in Deutschland

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 […]

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Carry on Camping…

So we are now 5 days into our camping experience and I am starting to feel like a professional!  Mind you it is hard work – 60km on a bike and then get to destination to offload all our stuff, get set up, showered, something to eat, go to bed, get up in the morning, […]

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A Date with the Dyke (Dijk)

Our first morning getting up after camping was not our finest – stuff lost, missing, found, lost again, etc, etc! We’re not used to it yet and we realise that it’ll get slicker as we get to do it more, but we definitely made it look very difficult.  The upshot of this was that we […]

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Going Dutch

After our raucous evening and lively breakfast in Wassenaar it was back on the road relatively early  …this is our new vocation after all!  Headed off in blue skies and brilliant sunshine with Bairbre guiding us on the North Sea Coastal route. First stop was the North Atlantic Wall, built by the Germans in 1941 […]

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Life in the Netherlands

Spent a lovely evening with Sue and Phil in the Pier Hotel in Old Harwich, good company and good food.  I think we covered just about every topic in the ‘life, the universe and everything’ compendium! A special thanks for our custom-made waterproof bags for our gadget cables – specially designed and crafted by Sue […]

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