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Some downtime in Kraków

We left our rural retreat in hot and humid conditions for our 60km stint into Kraków where we had booked an apartment for 4 nights.  The first 30km ride was in lovely lush countyside on quiet roads, but that changed as we got nearer the city, as did the weather.  We got caught in one […]

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Kielce is worth a visit – as well as being an “agri” tourist!

So, the dodgy geezers didn’t appear overnight.  However a tractor passed our tent at about 5:30am – not once, but three times- just to make sure that we were awake! It’s amazing, we couldn’t imagine that anyone would come past us as we were 100m up a forest track, out of sight of the road […]

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“Holly-woodge” in Poland, melting tarmac, eaten alive and a few other things

It’s been an interesting few days and a mixed bag of the good, the bad and the ugly…So after our day of rest it was up and out early from our apartment outside Plock for what we had planned to be a shortish day.  We got on our way pretty easily and crossed a huge […]

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The process of adjustment

We have noticed that when we go from one country to another we feel a definite a sense of apprehension. In a very short time we have grown accustomed to the country we are in and we feel at ease with most of its nuances. Then when we cross a border or take a ferry […]

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Two go wild in Poland

A fairly quiet dinner on our last night in Gdansk and we departed our hot apartment (no air con!) early for our first day of cycling in Poland – with really no idea of what to expect and no fixed end destination in mind for the day other than general direction Olszytn which is about […]

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Truckers, Drunks, Hell’s Angels and two cyclists….Poland here we come!

Our second Stockholm AirBnB was not as nice as the first, but to be fair it was very cheap. We had a room in a flat on the ground floor of a low rise block and the use of a shared kitchen and bathroom. It was all functional, but rather lacked the finesse of the […]

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