These 2 oldies (did I really say that?); we are preparing for a bike ride of some 850 or 900 k’s depending on where you check. Sadly we are not training as much as we should, but we are getting together the bits and pieces that might just make the trip manageable and we are [...]
In short – no we are not We are not in good shape for our ride – but we are working on it. And we will have time to do it, the trip I mean, after all Best Beloved will have retired – (forced to retire, unheard of in New Zealand), so we have nowhere [...]
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There you go – our first bike ride in our training program – for our bike ride to Switzerland from Haarlem in the Netherlands at the end of Best Beloveds job here come August this year. And we did manage a pathetic ride of 12.5k’s – and as it always does – the wind blew [...]
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Yesterday, early evening, Friday 22nd October, we were in Amsterdam and were looking for and found the map shop – Pied a terre, to start finding maps for our proposed bike ride from the Netherlands to Switzerland. We found said shop. Said shop is huge with more maps than you could ever ever imagine exist [...]
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It was last Sunday. We were well rested, and the effects of this spring seemed to have lessened a bit for us both. It was nearly a great day – this Bison hunting day. We left home reasonably early, and as we always do we took clothes for the rain, and clothes for the wind. [...]
We left by train for Munich on the Monday morning after the birthday garden party. Fortunately M had looked up the trip for us on the internet because we had missed the train we had intended to catch and were very surprised at all the changes that we had to make. That is, we had [...]
A Birthday in Untersiggenthal or was it a visit to Bad Säckingen? We have just been to Switzerland for A’s (M’s partner) birthday, followed by a meandering through Germany. The party was held in their garden, the weather was great and the garden looked absolutely lovely all set up for the day. Lots of tables, [...]
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