The masonry layout
8 November 2019
So far on our trip we have cycled an average of 1,500km a month. But Australia has completely blown that average out of the water……in our first 2 weeks out of Perth we covered around 1,300km. We now come out with statements like “we only have 100km to do today”, which used to seem like […]
4 November 2019
Wednesday 30 October 19 – Albany to Wellstead – 99km We said our goodbyes to Jen, George and Frida and left the comfort blanket of our final WarmShowers hosts… There doesn’t appear to be any WarmShowers hosts from here to Adelaide, so we’re on our own! What a fabulous introduction to Australia we have had […]
29 October 2019
Thursday 24 October. Dunsborough to Margaret River. 64km. We had a last minute change of plan on our route today and rather than a long hard cycle to Augusta, the furthest town south on the western side of Australia, we opted for a shorter day to Margaret River, which is slightly inland. This meant we had […]
25 October 2019
Thursday 17 – Sunday 20 October 19 – Perth – 0km! So, having lost Martina’s phone on the wrong side of passport control at Singapore’s Changi Airport the only thing to do was to proceed to the departure gate. It was here that Martina had her second trauma of the day – the security staff […]
20 October 2019
When we look back at our journey so far we see Northern Europe as our long-distance cycling training ground and once we got into Poland our stabilisers were metaphorically taken off! The rest of Eastern and Southern Europe were consolidation for what was to come… In our minds it was in India, Bangladesh and Myanmar […]
18 October 2019
We didn’t give much thought to Malaysia before we arrived as it was almost at the end of the Asia leg of our trip and had seemed so far away. But the benefit of it being near the end of Asia meant that because we had days in hand we could relax a bit and make […]