Category: 2018 Danube Tandem
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Daisy blows four inner tubes, pauses as we visit the Stasi museum, but braves a magical tour through central Berlin, East and West
Today’s brief (as in, words) post needs just to capture two magical days in Berlin with old friends and Daisy’s rear inner tubing systems, with four (FOUR!) massive, monumentally explosive blowouts thanks to a stretched outer tyre, wrong and misrouted rim tape (my bad), and sheer wear and tear after nearly 2500 km. Photos will…
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Germany’s Moehne Dam and Brexit…
Anglo-German friendship on display at the Moehne dam of Dambusters fame. Rapidly repaired in 1943, by forced labour, following death of 1600 civilians (including 1000 Russians) in the 7-metre-high tsunami unleashed by the dam’s breach. With Dunkirk, one of the great WW2 myths that, all these years later, helped fuel Brexit. To whose supporters I…
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Tandeming with Guenther and Irmgard, nearly 40 years on.
Complete delight supping, stopping, tandeming, smiling at seriously real toy railways with old friends Günther and Irmgard Reichle in Menden on way home from the Danube. Old pictures of us cycling in Berlin 1980, then us today, then videos of Günther’s amazing train set in warm evening action. PS their tandem is the same Motobecane…
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1000km down the Danube
Great 1000-km tandem trip just concluded into Budapest from Regensburg, through 12 days of baking Central European heat down the shockingly dry and low Danube (climate change, anyone?) and with warmest thanks to stoker Jutta on the back and steed Daisy below. Both arriving in rudest of health, though one of the two did need…
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