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Tilly can’t cope…
Tilly has been making a decidedly unhealthy sounding clunks when we hit pot holes and bump up on kerbs. I’d tried tightening the headset but it made no difference and we stopped in Bodmin at a bike shop for advice. The guy there took the front fork out and said our...
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Have you got that the right way up?
I spend a lot of time planning our routes and we alway try to stay off the bigger roads, avoid the hills (obviously) and stick to the quiet back lanes. Generally (though I say it myself) I’m pretty good at it now and it pays off in the form of lovely quiet days cycling....
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Bring on the hills!
We arrived in Penzance at 8am having both had a poor night’s sleep. I have to stress this wasn’t due to the cabin, which was really nice. High quality bedlinen, nicely finished and quite well insulated from the train noise. We just had one of those nights when you...
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Madness I tell you, Madness….
They say Madness is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results so why we have just boarded the Night Riviera bound for Penzance i have no idea. It’s hilly there, very hilly and you all know how we feel about hills! Still, too late now as...
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"The Adventures of Ten Tonne Taffy"
and Tilly the Tandem
2021 – Land’s End to Scotland
Part One – Ipswich to Scotland
And we are off again… - With lockdown relaxed and travel allowed we packed Tilly up and headed off southwards to Scotland. I know, Scotland North,… 
The Cambridgeshire Alps - Day two started bright and sunny and we hurtled along BMW alley to get off the stretch as soon as… 
Heading North… - On our rest day we decided to cycle into Peterborough, sans Panniers which felt really strange as Tilly handles so… 
York - York Minster Someone's done the decent thing and put the Town out of their misery Entering Yorkshire from Lincolnshire for… 
County Durham - The hills had been performing a pincer movement ever since we left York trying to hem us in and force… 
Bonnie Scotland 🏴 - We crossed into Scotland having had yet another white van man moment where they come within a few inches of… Part Two – Land’s End to Ipswich
Madness I tell you, Madness…. - They say Madness is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results so why we have just… Bring on the hills! - We arrived in Penzance at 8am having both had a poor night's sleep. I have to stress this wasn't due… Have you got that the right way up? - I spend a lot of time planning our routes and we alway try to stay off the bigger roads, avoid… 
Tilly can’t cope… - Tilly has been making a decidedly unhealthy sounding clunks when we hit pot holes and bump up on kerbs. I'd… 
Uh oh…. - We left Bristol on the old Bath Railway, a gentle incline for 7km followed by a lovely roll down toward… 2020 – Winter in Taiwan
All packed up and ready to go - This year we're off to Taiwan to circumnavigate the island in an anti clockwise direction, hopefully taking full advantage of… 
Hello Taiwan - Everything went like clockwork for the journey from Ipswich to Taipei. The taxi turned up 45 mins early, we arrived… 
On to Taipei - Our first proper cycle was good to get under our belt during the Chinese New Year with the much reduced… 
Jetlag and Taipei - We've struggled (me in particular) with Jet lag this trip. On our first cycle we arrived in Taipei and I… 
Well that was easy… - We retraced our steps out of Taipei toward the airport and had a coffee break at the Old Cermaic Street… 
National Cycle route 1 - The national cycle route 1 goes all the way around the island. There appear to be variations of it as… 
Wow! - Leaving the glitzy second city behind, (slowly) we had my front bag support snap off the handlebar on one of… 
Onwards to the Tropics… - After our couple of wonder days we woke to a gloomy and cool day as we headed to the Tropic… 
What the heck was that? - Our old foe the wind had plans for trying to ruin our departure cycle from Tainan so we outfoxed it… 
The End of the road and Vampires - We were on the final stretch now southward to the most southerly point in Taiwan and the tropical playground of… 2019 – Orlando Northwards…
Running Away - Eisenhower was quoted as saying "No plan survives contact with the enemy" and our plan this March had been to… 
To the Coast - Last year when we toured the US we cycled for ages before we saw a cycle tourer, a vege restaurant… 
Moving on up…. - The coast from Ormond Beach up to St Augustine gave us plenty of opportunities to stop and admire the sand… 
Weather - When you think of Florida the last thing youll probably think of is a dreary rainy day like we get… 
Onward to the Gulf - Having returned the car hire in Gainesville and got a lift back to Tilly we cycled on to an Airbnb… 
Exhausted - Ok, we're not looking for sympathy - we choose to cycle tour and accept the drawbacks that go with this… 
Feet up time! - Our stay with the secret cousins was fabulous. Rob is my mum's second cousin and we were all totally unaware… 
Call the Sheriff! - We arrived in our 7 seater luxury at the Jacksonville North Carolina regional airport, loaded up Tilly and set off… 
Watch out for Mosquitos - The further north you travel the more proper crockery and cutlery you find in places. Who knows, maybe it migrates… 
A Senior Moment - The cycle north of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel is lovely - though we did meet some cyclists who couldn't…