Ni with digital evidence

View from our train to Oberalppass

View from our train to Oberalppass

View from our train to Oberalppass

View from our train to Oberalppass – look at that road!

View from our train to Oberalppass

View from our train to Oberalppass

Coming into Oberalppass station

Oberalppass station

We cycled down that …

… but we couldn’t cycle up that!

Looking around from where I waited for Elly

Wierd thing en route

The Rhine emerges from Tomasee down the gorge on the right

The Rhine

Place-may in the pub: churches around Trun

Tide marks where I had kinesiology tape on my leg

We’re in a Romansch-speaking area. Our landlady speaks it, German and Italian. Also she seems to know at least one word of Russian: ‘spasiba’ (‘thanks’).

Advert in Romansch

Getting higher!

Grüss-di aus Andermatt! Wir sind in Gasthaus Skiklub, auf Gotthardstrasse. That’s enough German: predictive text is being unhelpful.

So there were quite a lot of trains yesterday and today:

Amsterdam Centraal 18:55 Arnhem Centraal 19:59
Arnhem Centraal 20:44 Duisburg Hbf 22:14
Duisburg Hbf 23:13 Basel SBB 06:22
Basel SBB 08:28 Brig 10:40
Brig 10:40 Brig Bahnhofplatz 10:40
Brig Bahnhofplatz 11:23 Andermatt 13:20

Photo of view of Rhône from train to Brig

View of Rhône from train to Brig

Photo of part of Brig Bahnhof

Brig Bahnhof is watching you!

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Squelch!

Photo of Bruce and Elly’s bikes

All Levved up and Fidel’s to go!

The ever-wonderful Elly has described our trip from home to North Shields so what can I add? Well, I’m amazed I can even think about blogging after 4 hours’ sleep last night, but I’m just so happy to be travelling again with my lovely lady. And of course huge thanks to her and our employers and our various yoga-teachers, spinning instructors, and therapists for all their parts in enabling this trip! Continue reading

Never mind Brexit, it’s legsit! #firstworldproblems

This post is a reminder of an infamous article in the Daily Mail.

So I felt fine after doing a wee ride on 1st July, but when I went to bed my left buttock and thigh went into really painful contracted spasm, and stayed that way so I hardly slept. When I got up on Monday morning, the spasms went away but my left shin was very painful. It took me over 15 minutes to limp from the flat to the taxi-rank outside the Rutland – around a quarter of a mile, involving several stops and much swearing. Continue reading

Extending the range

The jaunts from North Berwick to Edinburgh last weekend and the weekend before that were fairly flat. We both wanted to see if we could go further, on more undulating terrain. So Elly suggested cycling via Kirkliston to Linlithgow and back. We’re just back, and despite a few grumbles, my legs kept going. The Rose SPD sandals worked well too. Here’s the inevitable cyclemeter map:

cycle-route from Edinburgh to Linlithgow and back

click he graphic to see ride details

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