In Passchendaele, the dead sleep well beneath manicured lawns. The unknown soldiers receive dozens of daily visitors, like Peter Pan […]
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Cycle Touring Australia and Beyond
I love bicycle touring and have ridden from Melbourne to Darwin, Melbourne to Adelaide, Melbourne to Cooktown, Pert to Melbourne and toured around Victoria and Tasmania. In 2015 I rode around the world! In 2017 6000kms half way around Australia then another 4000kms Helsinki to Athens via Scandinavia. Where to next?
In Flanders Fields
Our tour of Flanders (Belgium) continued up and over the wall into Geraardsbergen where we were rewarded with a Mattenstaart. […]
Back Roads to Belgium and Beyond
From Budapest, we took a local train from Keleti station to Gyor close to the Hungarian border where we were […]
Out There!
Cycle touring is rarely a linear pursuit. Getting There is half the fun and often involves taking a convoluted route: […]
Budapest
The House of Terror Museum is located at 60 Andrassy Street Budapest in an unobtrusive renaissance-style building that was the […]
Austria, Slovakia, Hungary: the Old and the New
Like thousands of others, my alienated angst-ridden adolescent self found a kindred spirit in the ideas and writings of Franz […]
Vienna Loafing
Leaving Passau early we made good time along the road and cycle path to Ottenshiem where we took the chain-driven […]
Danube Days
At its beginning, the Danube was little more than a stream as we followed its curves at a leisurely pace, […]
The River
We have reached the end of our Eurovelo15 Rhine cycle tour. The Bodensee, Lake Constance on the Swiss/ German border […]
Switzerland, where have you been all my life?
We had an easy cycle ride along the Rhine from Bad Bellingen to Basel, where we found a great camping […]
