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A couple of weeks ago, I wrote that I’d made a decision to cycle from Fremantle to Bondi Beach, during my long service leave next year. Earlier this week, I’d heard that the Western Australia border is not likely to open until at least the 1st of April, 2021 (after that...
Happy new year, to one and all, for 2019! For 2018, I didn’t fit in as much cycling as I’d hoped for – didn’t even breach the 1000 km mark! This was partly due to my coming off my bike, around mid-2018, and giving it a break for a couple of months. 2019, though...
Wow. What a great year 2017 was, in terms of travel. Mostly one set of travels, really! I am, of course, referring to my Cycle Against the Beast bicycle ride from Sydney to Melbourne, for Fight MND (previously, known as the Cure for MND Foundation. This was the first time I’d ridden...
Cycle Against the Beast – 2017 Day 20 – 8th June, 2017 Seymoud (08:09) 100.4 km 19.9 km/h Melbourne Cricket Ground (15:57) 6:48 916.74 km Today, like most mornings over the last couple of weeks, was quite cold. It was also foggy. Not too much above 0 celsius. Still, I had a...
Over the years, I had been coming up with grandiose ideas of travelling the world for an extended period of time. It started out with the idea of travelling by train from London to Hong Kong, which would include the Trans-Mongolian from Moscow to Beijing. The plan quickly expanded to...