It was an odd feeling, waking up with no bikes to get onto and nowhere to ride. However, our bodies seemed delighted at the idea of a restful morning out of the saddle. Especially the kind of morning where you wake up in a comfy king size bed in a luxurious city apartment! There was Read more

One of the appealingly attractive aspects of being away on expedition is that you’re never quite sure if things will go how you planned them and that the outcome of any given day is unknown at the start – and that either way, you’ll have to deal with the situation one way or another. One Read more

Today has most certainly been the biggest day of cycling of my life. In fact almost every day of the last nine days have also been, but today was a whopper (by my standards) at 75.5km. Both feeling chuffed and destroyed in equal parts. It’s a very satisfying feeling to have pushed your body a Read more

Waking up in the tent so close to the beach could only mean one thing – an early morning wake up dip! Straight out of the tent, it certainly woke us up and got us ready to ride. We dashed up to the showers from the beach for a warm up afterwards, only to find Read more

There’s something great about being able to pack up all your worldly belongings into a couple of panniers and setting off in general direction without being certain on where you’ll next stop. The other good thing about cycle touring is that it doesn’t take long to strike camp, pack and leave, because we don’t have Read more

Another fine day on the tour of Denmark! Great riding, a few bits of sight seeing and a mega burger lunch. –  We set off from Maribo Campsite via the lakeside cathedral. We stopped briefly in the town to pick up a few bits of food for lunch and have a quick look around the Read more