Wednesday 21: Poldered
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Category Archives: travels
Tuesday 20th: getting kitted up
What Elly said (Facebook), but here’s some Bruce-addenda Continue reading
Monday 19th: around Zaandam
So happy that Elly suggested waiting a day or two before getting bikes. We’ve been pottering around Zaandam, doing both holiday errands and sight-seeing. First stop supermarket = both of us like to have supplies! Continue reading
Sunday 18th: home to Zaandam
Travel details
| From | To | Details |
| Servants’ Quarters | Tram stop | walk |
| Tram stop | EDI | Sit😊 |
| EDI | AMS | flight KLM1286 (16:05 to 18:35) |
| AMS | Zaandam station | train (Sprinter 3358 – cyclemeter map! |
| Zaandam station | Innhotel, Provincialweg | walk 200m |
Randomising my bozoness
A quick update on what’s been happening recently… Continue reading
Interstellar Overgrowth
More whinging about my guts, and some good things… No apologies to anyone for perverting song titles in this post. Continue reading
No news is good news – updated
Moans and groans ahoy!
Spinning the world away!
Elly and I have been spinning at the wonderful LifesCycle for four years to help keep ourselves fit enough to enjoy exploring the world on bikes. We are going off on our adventures later this year, but we know we are incredibly lucky to have the time and the security to do that. LifesCycle has been a strong supporter of Mercy Corps and we would like to add a little bit to their support of people suffering around the world, particularly refugees. If you have two minutes, this video will give you a little bit of insight into the people Mercy Corps supports. Continue reading
Shaking it down
It’s about 3 months until we set of for our Iron Curtain Trail cycle. We’ve done a number of long-ish cycles (about 500 miles) but have always stayed in hotels and hostels. The ICT will be much harder – over 4000 miles and camping most nights – so there’s a lot of preparation to do. So today I did my first shakedown-cycle (2 laps of Holyrood Park), to try to learn more about cycling a fully-laden bike, what and how to pack, etc.
Here’s the cyclometer-map, and here’s the GoPro video:
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Hi ho let’s go – not!
As Elly put it
Have spent all of this evening at Edinburgh Airport but flight has been cancelled. Flights tomorrow morning now full, so we are now flying from Glasgow tomorrow. This is only a quick visit to celebrate Bruce’s Mum’s birthday, so we are coming back on Sunday afternoon anyway. The best laid plans…
