Ahead of agreeing to this trip, we had done no kind of ‘route planning’. Nothing. Zilch. Nada. The whole basis of the route had been that ‘Paris to Amsterdam’ sounded good. We now need to work out how we’re actually going to…

To be honest, we had been dining out on our ‘tandathon’ story for far too long – cycling from London to Berlin on a tandem bike, and then running a marathon. Aside from our own stories, the little evidence that…