Sid and Doris Bonkers and their Epic Journeys
"Everybody is normal until you get to know them"
In which Sid and Doris do purist riding to seek out Neolithic era buildings and a hotel up an overly beaten track.From Palau we were going to the very north of Sardinia at Santa Teresa Gallura before turning West, South West toward Porto Torres. So as not to use the same road twice which Doris hates, Doris plotted a route…
Read moreBig roads vs little roads – the human perception of slopes – potholes1. Big roads are boring but little roads always seem to be hard Every so often we take a step back from the Epic Journey, and we muse that the problem with Epic Journeys is that you tend to whizz through places on the straightest road you can…
Read moreRubbish – Donk-o – Disappearing cutlery – The Arm-o Challenge – Still more reasons not to compete in the Tour de France Oh gosh it is nice to be back on the open road again. Time to put the brain back into neutral and see what happens. 1. What a load of rubbish.Going out of Budoni yesterday Sid observed how…
Read moreIn which Sid and Doris set out again and have a High Paw day, back on the road again along the swanky Costa SmereldaSid and Doris said goodbye to England-on-the-Med to start the three day ride to Porto Torres. When we took the bikes out on Thursday to check them over we were not much enthused. This morning we set…
Read moreYou may be able to work out the tune to this one. A versatile little number with plenty of room for improvisation, and the tune is easy enough that you can shout it out while going along. Look what they’ve done to my road, MaLook what they’ve done to my road.Well they’ve built the road straight up the hillIt makes…
Read more“S” says:I am a Very Skientific sort of cove and I have invented an incliniommetter thing for my adventure tri cycle.It tells me when I am going up hill how steep the hill is.And when I am going down hill it tells me that too but wheeee the main thing then is not to look at the inclinything but to…
Read moreAn explanation of this seemingly self-explanatory hashtag.When I was on the boat down the Danube with Doris’s Knee Problem I got talking to Anna and Alistair, and Anna introduced me to the concept of #bestviewedfrombelow. Originally it referred laughingly to anything that was Way Up There when you were viewing it from the river-level comfort of your floating restaurant/hotel/chill zone. …
Read moreIn which Sid and Doris rest up for more cycling later at a Nielson’s beach clubThanks to Frostie, manager at Baia Dei Mori, we were in on Friday and already at play on the Saturday, while most of the guests were having their last day out of The Manager Box (or however they think about their work). A fellow…
Read moreFrom Sardinia to Santander on a relaxed timeline with only a few smallish obstacles remaining. Here we are in Sardinia (hooray!) so only one major section of the Epic Journey is left to plan – “simply” get to Santander in time for the ferry on the 4th September. The ferry only goes twice a week and all the cabins are…
Read moreSee it. Do it. This is a really important rule, and is perfect for Regret Prevention. Do not go past something you want to do (buy, eat, photograph etc) and think “wow that is really great, next time I see one of those I will do/buy/eat/photograph it. Because there won’t be another opportunity. This applies even if you have seen…
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