Sid and Doris Bonkers and their Epic Journeys
"Everybody is normal until you get to know them"
From 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 moreQ: So the Epic Journey to Istanbul has delivered! What changes did you make as you went along? Doris: I think we became a little more fixated on Istanbul as a destination as we went on, and that straightened the route out and meant less sightseeing. We didn’t go to some bits of Bulgaria and Romania that we originally had…
Read moreThe Epic Journey was originally conceived of in three parts, adding up to 16 weeks plus a bit in the UK to get home from the ferry:1. An outward leg to somewhere Epic2. A slower bit with some free time taking ferries across to Greece and Italy and having some chill-out time en route, eating leetle feeshes in harbour towns…
Read moreAs 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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