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Amazing Adelaide and beyond

Tuesday 2 – Saturday 7 December 2019.  Adelaide.  0km. Our original plan for Adelaide was to stay four nights with three full days off.  But it took us slightly longer to get there, so we decided to only take two days off – and from what we had read about the city that seemed likely […]

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The long and winey road

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 […]

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More than half-way across Australia

Saturday 23 November. Ceduna to Perlubie Beach. 99km. It was COLD when we left Ceduna in the early hours of Saturday morning – feeling suitably refreshed after our day off. To give ourselves a change of scenery from the Eyre Highway we were heading towards the coast to a beach campsite that we had read […]

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Crossing the Nullarbor Desert – Part 3

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 […]

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Crossing the Nullarbor Desert – Part 2

Thursday 14 November 2019.  Mundrabilla to Eucla. 65km. Mornings are really cold at the moment, especially when it’s windy. Then it heats up a bit mid-morning, and by lunchtime it’s generally boiling – so we have to dress in layers and peel them off as the day goes on.  It then gets cold in the […]

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Crossing the Nullarbor Desert – Part 1

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 […]

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