A cracking time…
Oh dear… ???? Surgeon at work… Alloy weld fix. Back up and running.. ???? Soooooo tempting… ⛴️⛴️ And up another hill to get away… Before we change our minds.. Navigating the steps on the downhill cycle path hill into Dover Battle of Britain Memorial Yay… Sun is out and time for our first ice cream ???? Poor Tilly! 51,005km, 10 years 5 months 2 days old and the chain stay snapped completely through. We think it’s been cracked for a while though as we’ve had an irritating creaking occasionally and despite removing almost every component from the bike,...
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Chelmsford Cathedral Try getting a loaded tandem over that! Rochester Cathedral More hurdles…. Canterbury Cathedral Canterbury Cathedral Passport stamps Windy Whitstable.. Trauma for Tilly…. A couple of years ago the English Cathedral Association and Cycle UK put together a UK English Cathedral Pilgrimage route. They give you (£5) a passport to collect stamps at each of the 42 English cathedrals so this is our summer route. Why? Well, you may think after our short trip to neo Nazi Bible thumping, book banning, anti trans, gun loving Florida we came back all...
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Beautiful canal route from Nantes Rennes Dinan Our last coffee stop… End of the road… Our last sunset! All aboard… Au revoir ????????.. We’ve enjoyed our cycle up through France, there’s been some fabulous cities to visit -La Rochelle, Rochefort, Nantes and in particular Rennes which we would definitely like to come back to. We’ve love the cycle infrastructure once you’re away from the Spanish border. One way streets seem to always be two way for cyclists, even if they’re narrow! Cycle lanes are usually two way segregated not just a white line...
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Welcome Aboard.. Calm before the storm Birthday Celebrations Hello Eunice…. And we thought this was a bit choppy… Little did we know what was coming! Mid Adlantic at Force 9.. A welcome lull between the storms Didnt spill a drop!! Well, the UK has suffered from some horrendous winds from Storm Eunice. We, sailed through it. To be fair the captain put his toe down and did a runner for the Azores but only managed to skirt the edge of the storm and I hate to think what going right through the middle would have been like. Our calm departure from Southampton soon turned into a gale...
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355.5 km Portsmouth Tilly getting her sealegs ready! Us getting our sealegs ready!! Abbey ruins at Southampton Packing Tilly for her next adventure… And we’re off… Stage 2 of Jonny’s ‘Big Birthday’ begins… On our LEJOG tour last year we bumped into full time hard core cycle tourer Pete a number of times. He’s currently in Spain having spent a couple of months heading up and down the side of mountains in the Canaries which sounds like an awful lot of hardwork to us, but he loves it. Out of the blue he dropped us a chat with a picture of us and...
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Romford housing estate!! Arrived on the South Coast at Shoreham Been looking forward to these.. ???? First puncture of the trip! Coffee heaven.. South Downs cycle track Only just squeezed Tilly over this bridge… Perfect coffee stop.. Teddington lick foot bridge The new face of Big Ben It’s not often we head off in the wrong direction form the word go. But following Taffy breaking down the night before departure in a desperate act to stop us leaving her we had to shorten our first cycle day to allow us to arrange repairs. We usually get Taffy ready for storage the night before...
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