Europe cycle 2010
Photos from the cycle…
http://bit.ly/bJ2IbU here are 700 odd photos from the cycle. including a couple of knowles’ halfed bike. a lot of painting on walls and a lot of drink.
Europe cycle 2010
Day 14: siesta
We had muchos cervesa and muchos mojito last night; got back here at 5 am :| slept all day. I got a bottle of soberano, a bottle of jim beam and a botle of ponche cabalero. tomorrow we get picked up at 1pm; I will spend my last 50 euro Read more…
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Day 12: bompas to port bou
We cycled for about 40km, then jumped on a quick train for 4 stops from a random wee french place to the first stop inside espania. right into a thunder storm. we had to book into a hostel. there are 5 bars here. one place that sells pizza and 20 Read more…
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Day 11: narbonne to perpignan
Day 11: cycled back over the mountain this morning; headwind all the way. about 15km. train from narbonne to perpignan cos we slept about all day. then 15km to find a campsite. all in all a poor day cycling. still, only 60km till spain and 20km after that to rosas. Read more…
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Day 10: sleeping in narbonne
At the end of day 9 we met some frenchies who had moonshine. knowles got hammered. for day 10 we slept all day. and topped up our sun tans :) we saw a lizard and tried to catch it. we made turkey fillets with rice and mayo and veg and Read more…
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Day 9: effing frenchies.
The clicky at montpellier station tried to bump us 20 euro. I got tickets from him and he didnt give me any change. so I said ‘i just gave you a 50’ you need to give me 20 euros change. he frenched at me. I repeated what I said, only Read more…
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Day 8: circles..
We cycled from the campsite back to montpellier, waited about all day for the temperature to drop, then left along the d116. which turned out to not exist. so we tried to get on to a road that would take us to the coast where we needed to be. motorway. Read more…
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Day7: la corrone to montpellier
We had to get the train back to marseilles then to montpellier today. it was roasting again. we found a minted campsite next to a beach. its getting more and more like spain as we go south and less and less like italy. im sitting in a cafe with a Read more…
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Day 6 st raphael to la courriane
By the time we got packed and ready it was half eleven; so we decided to get the train to marseilles. then we got a wee train to la correne or something like that, and got to a campsite at 6:45. the guy said it was full, but when we Read more…
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Day 5: cannes to st raphael
Today was brutal. it was far too hot. knowles has a sore neck; probably from sleeping in his sauna on the bed of rocks last night, but maybe whiplash. great. I almost ran over a snake. we also got offered a flat to rent by some mad french woman. we Read more…
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Day 4: sleeping in cannes
Day 4 was easy. 0 miles. we got into the campsite at 8; made our tents, got a quick wash and slept. till my sauna felt almost like a tent and I had to get up and make some shade with my tarp and a few ray mears knots. then Read more…
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Day 3: Monaco to Cannes
The grand corniche started well; we left the campsite at 11am, down the top half of the grand corniche; got 66.9 km/h knowles got 75.6km/h. The grand corniche When we got to the steep part of the mountain, Knowles fucked into a wall at about 50km/h. His bike snapped in half. Knowles Read more…
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Day 2: eze to monaco and back to eze
Day 2 started with a ten km cycle down the second steepest road ive ever seen; the steepest being the one we cycled up yesterday. got 61.3km/h, could have hit 70 but my light fell off and I had to stop and walk back up 100 meters to get it. Read more…
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Day 1: glasgow to eze
We started in glasgow at 8pm, friday; got the virgin tilty train to preston; got a wee train from there to manchester airport. arrived at 00:30 saturday. met some scousers who were getting the same bus as us but getting off at lyon. our bus got in at 4:30. we Read more…
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Im cycling from italy to spain starting tomorrow =)
tomorrow after work im heading to manchester; then on to montpellier, then to nice then to the border with italy; then I am turning round and cycling from there to rosas in spain. I will be posting a lot cos im taking my phone with me. ill post one post Read more…
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Loch lomond went well; kinda
Loch lomond went well. except that eck was sleeping in balloch and went hame; still he did better than jamie mcgeechan who didnt show =) I dont think cotter could manage the longer cycle in the summer. eck might be able to, but he only really did half of one Read more…
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Loch lomond
well, I am planning a cycle to stonehenge in july. as a practice run I am going to cycle from glasgow to loch lomond, along this route with all my gear, pitch my tent for the night, and cycle back the next day. there are about 6 of us going, Read more…
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Map of where i think we will go
this is a rough map of the route I think we should take: http://bit.ly/a5w3bv it will probably end up being quite different, but thats all part of it. also, this year we are going to do a couple of training sessions for the no0bs – cycling to loch lomond from Read more…
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Cycle adventure 2010!
well, this is the first post in this category. so id better tell you what the category is about. last year I cycled 700 miles round europe in 2 weeks during the summer. we did: belgium, luxembourg, france, germany and holland. this year, to get more people involved, we are Read more…