Hills, mountains and views
Chungju to Andong 4 days 232km 1164m climb (691km total) Now I’ve mentioned our dislike of hills on facebook – at length – so after leaving Chungju refuelled we headed south and onto the Saejae Cross country route. It’s only a 100km but it’s across the highest mountains on the route, though the Swiss may challenge the word ‘mountain’ but when you’re cycling a fully loaded tandem (tent, sleeping bag(!), hair straighteners etc) 540m certainly feels like a mountain. First we took a short cycle to the spa town of Suanbo and...
Read MoreRunning on a pedal and a prayer…
270km 6 days 1100m climb (500km total) Coming to Korea for a vegetarian is apparently akin to going to Nashville if you hate country music, add in making it a cycling holiday and it’d be like going to Nashville if you hate country music, America and Americans. We need about twice the normal amount of calories a day when cycling and have been getting about half our normal food consumption. By the time we reached Chungju we were finding even the flat stretches hard work and having to push Tilly up an 800m 10% Hill to get a passport stamp only to find the Chungjudam passport...
Read MoreLight sabers, stormtroopers and Love Hotels
Seoul to Chuncheon 2 days 142km 476m climb South Korea’s police seem to have got a bulk deal on sawn off light sabers. There are loads of police at junctions and they all have a sawn off light saber which they wave whilst blowing whistles. Given that often there’s only the occasional car we’re not quite sure why they do this, but at we said before the drivers here are by and large very good, so maybe it’s a good way of getting high standards of driving. The Star Wars theme is continued by the cyclists. They all wear full length leggings,...
Read MoreSmoking, veges and baked beans…
Incheon to Seoul. 5 days, 87km, 135m climb Asia is not renowned for its smoke free atmosphere so it’s been a real shock to find so little smoking here. Many streets and all bars and restaurants are non smoking and you can’t even sit outside a bar and smoke without asking the other guests if they mind. You can’t smoke in stations or infact within 10 meters of a station and you rarely see anyone smoking walking down the street. They tend to congregate in corners, often with their backs to the passers by like naughty school boys, or drug addicts, which I suppose they...
Read MoreYou cannot be serious…
Right, I’m not keen on Asian food, we both hate hills, we’re both veggies added to which I’m, as many will know quite ‘fussy’ about my food, and I don’t like flying so where are we off to next then? Well that’s a good question and the answer is of course, the rather mountainous Asian country of South Korea, a place not renowned for its vegetarian food. In fact they apparently love fish oil so much that it’s made us worry whether they put it in the coffee too. We may be using Pizza Hut a lot for the next couple of months!...
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