Sid and Doris Bonkers and their Epic Journeys
"Everybody is normal until you get to know them"
As we continue to crouch round the PC trying to plan Phase 2 with spreadsheets of road/climb distance, ferry timings, hotel availability, we are looking back to Phase 1 and what actually happened to the route. Two main things :1. We found that 100km a day and 1,000m of up was quite enough, and in fact shouldn’t be repeated day…
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Bulgaria has proved harder than we thought.
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This route planning is getting quite technical, so for the benefit of future generations of eager cycling adventurers, and assisted by “S”, our self-proclaimed cycling expert, here is our system for calculating a daily target.
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You may remember that our original route plan was an extremely vague clockwise ellipse around Europe,
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I thought you might like to see some of the information I have at my fingertips when cycling along.
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We want the phrase “through gritted teeth” to remain as a metaphor…
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This is the page where our reader(s) could find the map of our trip, updated every day. The route was logged on the bicycles, so if you zoom in you can see all the wrong turns, mistakes and bad decisions. Learn from us!
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… survives first contact with the enemy. So who or what are the enemies? We reckon they are:
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This may look a bit casual but we have given some thought to the route.
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