We’ve made it past the half way point and into Belgium! Here’s a quick updates on the past couple of days. Day 5: Fourmies to Thuin (45 miles) After finding ourselves stuck in the up-down-up slog of the hills of…
Very quick update on the last couple of days! Day 3: Thorette to Guise (53 miles) It was supposed to be an ‘easy’ day – bright sunshine, flat route along a cycle path, so we loaded up on planned miles….
A busy day yesterday meant we didn’t have the chance to do an update, but thought we would quickly do a report on the first two days before we forget! Day 1: Paris to Ermenonville (44 miles) Despite Rob’s reluctance,…
In the last couple of weeks of prep we’ve slightly negelected our blog updates, but given that we’re now in Paris on the eve before we set off for Amsterdam we thought we should quickly write something! All went smoothly…
Despite it still feeling like it’s the middle of winter outside (minus 3, or minus 9 with windchill IN THE MIDDLE OF MARCH), our ‘spring’ cycle commences in just under three weeks – so we’re starting to nail down all…
We’ve had some unseasonably cold weather in the UK over the past few weeks, with temperatures down to -6 Celsius and a good covering of snow. Our outside pipe has burst, trains have been delayed and cancelled, and our dog’s…
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…
2017 was a bit of a stagnant year for us. We had heaps of opportunities to take jobs overseas, have adventures and live life differently, but fear just seemed to keep getting in the way. When we had our son Sam…
I was desperate for an overseas adventure to escape the cold, dreary Hertfordshire winter, whilst Rob was reminding me that Christmas is expensive and we couldn’t really afford it – story of our lives! However, luckily, Kayak and Easyjet are…