Shaft of light just short of Orford in Suffolk (itself 30 miles short of our immediate destination today, the port of Harwich) almost illuminating one of the silliest routing decisions we’ve ever taken on a tandem tour, taking us through fields, grass and narrowest of footpath gates after narrrowest of gates round the Alde estuary. … Read more …
First pix of Daisy2 road-ready, with Bob Yak trailer connected and Pendix battery in place (second one on 3 the Ortlieb sideways barrel bag). This on Saturday afternoon, ready for departure Monday morning with Beccles our first overnight. Then plan to camp Tuesday near Sutton Hoo (hoping for visit to the site of that extraordinary … Read more …
As Ralph McTell (and I, in my late 60s/early 70s folk-singing Uni days) used to put it, finally the moment has come and here we stand, as Jutta and I (fresh from our winter break in Grenada, revisiting where we honeymooned in 1997) are very shortly off on our VERY-long-planned cycling sabbatical around Europe. Daughter … Read more …