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The End of the World, Japan ‐ Oct 29, 2019

23.1 km

Hokkaido

The first sign of Autumn as visible in the 1000m climb up to Lake Towada in the centre of North Japan. Due to the countries visited and the sheer time of outdoor exposure, for a long time I've felt in...
Nemuro

155 km
Shiranuka ‐ Oct 27, 2019

176.1 km
Hidaka ‐ Oct 26, 2019

128.8 km
Sapporo ‐ Oct 25, 2019

35.5 km

Girl Bars and Long-lost Islands

I probed him over some of the more complex and sensitive topics within Japanese society. The Kuril islands, North-East of Hokkaido, were a natural place to start having been shown a few covert protest...
Otaru ‐ Oct 24, 2019

90 km
White shrine toya ‐ Oct 23, 2019

20 km
42.569391, 140.803528 ‐ Oct 22, 2019

40.9 km
Ryu-ko house ‐ Oct 21, 2019

35 km
Sake Eng Aus ‐ Oct 19, 2019

46.6 km
Tomokamei Port
Hachinohe ferry ‐ Oct 18, 2019

50.7 km

Honshu

The next day we missed a change in our perspective at a renowned zen garden, in favour of visiting our childhood dream - a Samurai Sword Museum in the town of Bijzen. The display had a minimalist eleg...
Yakeyama ‐ Oct 17, 2019

75 km
Odate ‐ Oct 16, 2019

145 km
Yurihonjo ‐ Oct 15, 2019

93.7 km
Cliff Grove ‐ Oct 14, 2019

135 km
Japan vs Scotland ‐ Oct 13, 2019

50 km
Niigata

58.6 km
Ojiya, police

117.8 km
Ueda ‐ Oct 10, 2019

85 km
Kiyosato, Rock

75 km
Fuji ‐ Oct 8, 2019

50 km
Nepali Curry House ‐ Oct 7, 2019

110 km
Kakegawa ‐ Oct 6, 2019

106.9 km
Toyota ‐ Oct 5, 2019

80 km
Yokkaichi ‐ Oct 4, 2019

113.4 km
Rugby Media Tent

9.7 km
Osaka ‐ Oct 2, 2019

91.4 km
Himeji Castle ‐ Oct 1, 2019

101.8 km
Kurashiki

75 km

Kyushu & Shikoku

The precision and fastidiousness of Japan was perceivable before we had officially entered the country. The staff at customs and containment went as far as disinfecting and cleaning the rims and all t...
Kan’onji ‐ Sep 29, 2019

84 km
Spa Feast Sweat ‐ Sep 28, 2019

90.6 km
Onomichi ‐ Sep 27, 2019

95 km
Hiroshima ‐ Sep 26, 2019

84.9 km
Shunan ‐ Sep 25, 2019
Kunisaki Port

132.4 km
Fukuoka ‐ Sep 24, 2019
Busan ‐ Sep 21, 2019

85 km

The World's Premier Cycle Route

The Rising Sun Cycle was never meant to pass through South Korea, and yet it was arguably the best country on tour. The original plan had been to cycle from Beijing down the Chinese seaboard to Shangh...

Notes - Korea

After running the gauntlet of steep narrow elevators, and heavily laden wide-set bikes, we were kindly greeted onto the ferry by the chief steward, a well dressed and effeminate man, who I happily mis...
Nori, South Korea ‐ Sep 20, 2019

85 km
Guji myeon

90 km
Gumi ‐ Sep 18, 2019

60 km
Borrowed Tent, South Korea ‐ Sep 17, 2019

60 km
Hill Triumph Pension ‐ Sep 16, 2019

72 km
Expired house land ‐ Sep 15, 2019

75 km
Guksu Karaoke ‐ Sep 14, 2019

58 km
Seoul ‐ Sep 11, 2019

41.7 km

You Got Seoul - NOtes

After running the gauntlet of steep narrow elevators, and heavily laden wide-set bikes, we were kindly greeted onto the ferry by the chief steward, a well dressed and effeminate man, who I happily mis...
Incheon

583 km
Ferry Port, China

73.4 km
Jiaozhou ‐ Sep 8, 2019

168.4 km

Notes - Beijing and Out

Although here as in Beijing, these single-story historic 'hutong' districts were levelled wasteland half the time, making way for the vertical villages that seem the only option with society on this s...
Another Damp Sticky Field ‐ Sep 7, 2019

185 km
Damp Sticky Field ‐ Sep 6, 2019

175 km
西青区 ‐ Sep 2, 2019

142.5 km
Beijing

77.6 km

Big in Beijing

Beijing was our first major global city since Istanbul, or possibly Almaty depending on definition. As the capital of China since the 15th century, Beijing is the nexus between the State and its peopl...
Yanqing ‐ Aug 31, 2019

166.8 km

Notes - Hitting The Wall

As Inner Mongolia blended into North of Beijing, our experience took on a richer and more flavoured hue. The mealtimes became increasingly flamboyant, hotpots and table-side barbecue's burst the gastr...
Wanquan ‐ Aug 30, 2019

173.4 km
Ulanqab ‐ Aug 29, 2019

112.6 km

Into Inner Mongolia

The difference over the border was one of separate eras and mentalities between the dusty and decrepit town of Zamiin-Uud in Mongolia and the gleaming Chinese city of Erenhot which was grid-split by 3...
Service Station Toilet ‐ Aug 28, 2019

149.4 km
Trugg Stancheon, China

206.8 km
Starry starry night, Mongolia ‐ Aug 27, 2019

202.9 km

Following The Donkey Post

After Lotus, we had a long and ranging run south out of Mongolia true, then through China's Inner Mongolia, before heading East again to Beijing. Near enough we were creating the route taken by the Mo...
Arag ‐ Aug 25, 2019

214.3 km
Flower Field ‐ Aug 24, 2019

110.1 km
Lotus Children’s Centre

22.4 km

Lotus in Bloom

(NOTES) In youthful naivety I always imagined a preference for having a son over a daughter, but that was turned on it's head during my stay at Lotus. The center is at the moment 2/3rds girls, I could...
Ulaanbaatar ‐ Aug 15, 2019

186.8 km

Meeting Mahananda

A diminutive figure, with black hair pulled tightly over his forehead where delicate details of the workings of cranium and veins were revealed through taut fresh skin. Aging only found in the silver...

'UB'een framed

In the run up to UB, almost every waking minute of 10 days solid was cycling or a related activity to power us across 150km or more each day. When this is the case there is recovery, repair, and rejuv...
Pipe dreams ‐ Aug 14, 2019

172.5 km

Karaoke and Coffins

Bayankhongor has a swelling population of 30,000, putting it amongst Mongolia's largest mega-cities. There was 'high' fashion on the streets, a couple of almost coffee houses, and a full two restauran...
Service Loft

155 km
Rude River Camp

122.2 km
Bayankhongor ‐ Aug 11, 2019

148.4 km
Infinite Fly River

85.5 km

Reflections on Roads

The infinite steppe means that real progress on a bike is to be made only with the favour of the wind gods. A decent tailwind can almost double our cruising speed to over 35 km/h, whilst a head wind c...
Awful Road ‐ Aug 10, 2019

146.1 km
Altai ‐ Aug 8, 2019

134.8 km
Steppe

190 km
Tsetseg ‐ Aug 6, 2019

141.4 km
Remote place

203 km

Steppe on

The Mongolian border guards differed sharply to the megalith of Chinese bureaucracy. At the Chinese immigration desk we were pulled across into a side interview room, and were confronted by two office...
Aqshopa, China ‐ Aug 2, 2019

151.9 km
Kalabulegen ‐ Aug 1, 2019

155.8 km

A People's Paradise?

On the civilian side of life, there are a few notables from Xingjiang. The Han Chinese are more playful than the many of the nomad peoples we've encountered: winks, jokes and indecipherable laughter s...
Jetaral ‐ Jul 31, 2019

121.6 km
Hoxtolgay ‐ Jul 30, 2019

99.4 km

Stop In The Name of Love

Within 90 seconds of entering the border town of Shankou, we had attracted the attention of police and were brought to the station for questioning. The Google Translate - Conversation app is your best...
Liushujie Subdistrict

153 km
Farmers Fields ‐ Jul 28, 2019

155 km
Storm Drain ‐ Jul 27, 2019

152.6 km

Enter the Dragon

The 5KM of neutral borderzone between Kazakhstan and Xingjiang China allowed some dramatic tension to build into this remote border crossing. The monumental and futuro-fort 'welcoming' archway was the...
Dostyk, Kazakhstan ‐ Jul 26, 2019

64.4 km

Out of the 'stans

The Chinese border crossing the next day gave us a firm reminder in patient persistence and right attitude. We had arrived there at 2.45pm Kazakh time, and were first told by the two grunts on the bor...
Under Bridge

54 km

Thunder and Lightning - Very Very Frightening

The couple of days to lake were finally tests of our cycling rather than our prowess as bike mechanics. We were wrapped up in a thunder and sandstorm on the first evening. We arrived to our target din...
Aqshi ‐ Jul 24, 2019

173.8 km
Koylyk ‐ Jul 22, 2019

134.6 km
Cafe -plains ‐ Jul 21, 2019

94.6 km

The puncture continues 7 in 3 days

Feeling Deflated

After this readjustment to the road, the day was going swimmingly. A fiery Korean lunch, was digested with a dip into a desert oasis. It was only then that theme for the next new days burst forth. The...
Riverside

113 km
Desert ‐ Jul 19, 2019

117 km
Almaty ‐ Jul 2, 2019

160.7 km

+70

‘Stan up

Almaty notes - drafting

From Almaty notes; Almaty as one of the most beautiful city for 500,000 reasons, could be prolonged sensory deprivation, but outstanding natural and artificial beauty. A blend of Russian Central Asian...
Plains

81.9 km
Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan ‐ Jul 1, 2019

140.6 km

Tunnel Vision

The final climb before Almaty was most remarkable for quite how easily we dismissed it. This was more than a vertical km climbed again up to an altitude above 3000m, but after a day's rest at the noma...
Turcan Camp ‐ Jun 30, 2019

123.8 km

A Very Kyrgz Affair

After a celebratory bottle of cognac and double portion of Lagman (nomadic noodle soup), it was impossible to look past the next challenge: the final climb before Almaty, shorter than this one in leng...
Toktogul ‐ Jun 28, 2019

75.9 km

The Hill

The climb up and out from Lake Toktogul will I think prove to be the longest and highest of the whole cycle, right from Ireland to Japan. The reservoir is at 900m and whilst the mountain pass peaked a...
Toktogul Lake ‐ Jun 26, 2019

97.5 km

One Good Day

The border was a busy trading hub, a green river of watermelons seemed to roll down the hill in a bustling trade, as traders from the silk bazaar gawped and greeted our weary progress. At every other...
Task-Komur, Kyrgyzstan

92.2 km
Asaka, Uzbekistan ‐ Jun 24, 2019

173.1 km

Jessica Christ Superstar

A slow burning day across the fertile Fergana plain followed, the conditions were roasting where the wind rushing past heated us like a convection oven. Jessica Jackson, a friend of Rob's Auntie, had...
Goya Goli

100.7 km

Fruits of Fergana

The next leg of the trip was entered with some misplaced trepidation. We were to traverse the luscious but infamous Fergana valley, a border peninsula of Uzbekistan carved into Kyrgzstan. Fergana had...
Khujand, Tajikistan ‐ Jun 21, 2019

158 km

Hooking A Host

By this stage in the journey as serial vagrants, we've developed a bit of a formula and an art for giving oneself the best chance of sleeping somewhere safe and made of something more sturdy than canv...
Mountain base ‐ Jun 20, 2019

153.9 km

A Long Held Dream

Tajikistan broke with expectations. This was a country where 6 years ago, at an even more ignorant age, I had been planning to enter into the roof-of-the-world rally. After an overland adventure, seco...
Samarkand, Uzbekistan ‐ Jun 18, 2019

152.4 km

Timur of Samarkand and Laziz of Bournemouth

Second to Ghengis Khan, Timur was the greatest uniting figure for central asian nomadic tribes. In Europe, he was known as Tamerlane - he was made lame by two battle injuries from his youth. Samarkan...
Navoiy ‐ Jun 16, 2019

123.9 km
Bukhara ‐ Jun 13, 2019

80.6 km

Bukhara

In treating ourselves to the best post-desert lunch Bukhara had to offer, we found some much-missed company to match. We started talking to Natalie and Jerry (?), a couple from Utah who had spent the...
Desert

155.6 km

Shot for Desert-ion

The desert had saved it's worst for last in the leg between Beyruni and Bukhara, a 300 km stint in the sand that evaporated morale and bodily fluid equally quickly. June had progressed and we were now...
Desert ‐ Jun 11, 2019

163.9 km
Beruni ‐ Jun 10, 2019

159.1 km

Revelling in Nukus

In the town outside Nukus, we thought we had found relief from our gastronomic nightmare in what appeared to be a glamorous temple to food. In the full glory and grime of a day's desert cycling, we pu...
Nukus ‐ Jun 9, 2019

20 km
Khujayli

149.9 km
Desert ‐ Jun 8, 2019

168.5 km

Just Deserts

The desert plains in Kazakhstan saw the rate of car horns increased from about a third of passing vehicles to more like 4/5ths, the eager encouragement of drivers equaling our growing dismay and subse...
Desert ‐ Jun 7, 2019

161 km
Beyneu, Kazakhstan ‐ Jun 5, 2019

238 km

Camel's Humps

The lands between Aktau and the Uzbek border are some of the sparsest on our trip, there are stretches of road more than 150 km without anywhere to fill up on water, whilst the midday heat is now peak...
Desert ‐ Jun 3, 2019

136.5 km
Desert

50.5 km
Aktau ‐ Jun 1, 2019

75.3 km

Self Aktau-lisation

The expectedly 'boring' birthday on a boat was spiced a little by the 80 km night ride with Steve from the desert port on the Kazakh side to the nearest city of Aktau. The border officialdom had reine...
Kuryk

Caspian Cruises

If there was ever a lottery in life it is the Baku-Aktau ferry crossing. Boats can depart on consecutive days or more than a week apart. The catch is that there is no schedule, you need to be present...
Alat, Azerbaijan ‐ May 30, 2019
Baku ‐ May 28, 2019

132.1 km

+65

Turkey to the Caspian

Azer-bye-drone

After the crowning glory of Tblisi, the remainder of Georgia echoed rather meekly out until the border with Azerbaijan at Lagodekhi. Although we did encounter the most fearsome off-road section of the...
Muganli ‐ May 27, 2019

150.6 km
Sheki ‐ May 26, 2019

89.3 km
Balakon ‐ May 25, 2019

88.4 km
Melaani, Georgia ‐ May 24, 2019

106.1 km
Tbilisi ‐ May 22, 2019

82.8 km

Down the Real River of Georgian Civilization

The riverside ride down run down the Mtkvari from the mountain valleys holding Chiatura through to the capital of Tblisi was a telling progression through the history and settlement of Georgia. We met...
Gori ‐ May 20, 2019

95.2 km

Gondola with the Wind

Our night-time arrival in Batumi was well-matched to its first flavour, after the partially religious prohibitions of Turkey in Ramadan, the nocturnal vices of sex, drink and gambling greeted us minut...
Chiatura ‐ May 19, 2019

85.1 km
Kutaisi ‐ May 18, 2019

108.7 km
Ozurgeti ‐ May 17, 2019

59.2 km
Batumi

93.4 km
Çamlıhemşin, Turkey ‐ May 16, 2019

62.5 km

Black Sea Tea

The next few days cycling blur into a single transit of the dual carriageway coastal road: a dazzling Black Sea to our left, the sun scorching our backs in cloudless sky, and the hourly terror of pas...
Rize ‐ May 12, 2019

88.9 km
Trabzon ‐ May 11, 2019

119.9 km
Giresun ‐ May 10, 2019

121.7 km
Unye ‐ May 9, 2019

96.2 km
Samsun

130.7 km

Utter Mudness

Leaving Amasya we were heading for the coastal city of Samsun, where Ali, a relative of Asli and a serious adventurer in his on right, was waiting to host us. A drizzle darkened into a downpour and we...
Amasya ‐ May 7, 2019

153.5 km

The Amasyian Way

After completing our stint in the area of alpine beauty surrounding Yedi Goller ('Seven Lakes'), Rob now needed to experience the reality of road cycling. We spent three long days on the same road rig...
Akkaya, Turkey ‐ May 5, 2019

142.7 km
Atkaraclar ‐ May 4, 2019

82.9 km
Duzkoy, Turkey

62.9 km
Yaylatepe ‐ May 3, 2019

57.9 km

Alladin and Alican

On two consecutive nights in Ducze and it's eastwards mountains, we had the pleasure of two utterly different but equally hospitable and last minute hosts: Alican and Alladin. Alican was found on Warm...
Düzce, Turkey

77.8 km

A Partridge in Turkey

The heat was bearing down upon us on the road to Ducze, and after some poorly-oiled (not fried) bread the night before our bodies were rather malfunctioning on poor quality fuel. We veered off the hig...
Adapazarı ‐ Apr 30, 2019

109.8 km
Şile ‐ Apr 29, 2019

106.6 km
Istanbul ‐ Apr 27, 2019
Stara Zagora, Bulgaria ‐ Apr 22, 2019

95.2 km

Post Plovdiv implosion

On a journey such as this or life, it is perhaps difficult to know when or how to count oneself lucky or ill-placed in the favour of the gods. The 'correct answer' for the power of positivity crowd i...
Plovdiv ‐ Apr 21, 2019

121.9 km

Reeling over Rila

Rila Monastery was a full two day diversion that seemed worth it, not least to survey the Rilski valley it sits in. The monastery itself has been a cultural powerhouse of Bulgaria for more than a thou...
Belitsa ‐ Apr 19, 2019

107.8 km
Rila Monastery, Bulgaria ‐ Apr 18, 2019

123.1 km
Sofia ‐ Apr 5, 2019

126.8 km

A Turkish bridal path back to the bike

A truly treasured week in Turkey, I'd drunk the salty coffee of matrimonial bliss without flinching, as my father's stumbling but valiant attempt at a turkish proposal somehow managed to get the impor...

Serbia to Sofia

The monastery's magic dissipated as the valley opened to a wide plain north of the Danube. The day's end was found in Drobeta-Severin, where 'Aslita' gets a 5* treatment at my warmshower host Ionut's...
Sredogriv

110.3 km
Negotin Municipality, Serbia ‐ Apr 3, 2019

61.8 km
Drobeta-Turnu Severin, Romania ‐ Apr 2, 2019

107.6 km
Lainici Monastery ‐ Apr 1, 2019

39.3 km

A Monk's Life

Over the next few days, I planned to climb up through the Cernas valley, and take the mountain pass through the nature reserve to return to the Danube river. I had been assured of my route by none oth...
Uricani ‐ Mar 31, 2019

109.1 km
Hunedoara ‐ Mar 30, 2019

43.4 km

+91

Behind The Iron Curtain

Camp Corvin

The other aspect of Romania that has made it quite so special is not the day's cycling, but the night's sleeping. I've had two more spectacular residences in Romania, both accidental and unplanned, an...

Trans-Transylvania

A short distance after the Romanian the first horse-drawn cart of my journey crinkled along the road in front of me. I was fast enough to snap a photo as seen, wondrous at the 'depth' of Europe I had...
Dobra

124.3 km
Arad ‐ Mar 28, 2019

111.5 km
Szeged, Hungary ‐ Mar 27, 2019

108.4 km
Harta ‐ Mar 26, 2019

96.5 km

'Straight outta Camp-ton'

(^Pardon the pun) The next day down the Danube brought fresh resolve generally, the Spring seemed to be taking it's first steps as the first cherry trees blossomed lining the route in an occasional da...
Budapest ‐ Mar 25, 2019

33.2 km

Danube Diaries

It's not always easy to convey the practical, physical and emotional realities of long-distance cycle touring to family, friends and loved ones. This was especially true for my life partner Asli, whos...
Vác ‐ Mar 22, 2019

36.1 km
Etzegrom

53 km
District of Komárno, Slovakia ‐ Mar 20, 2019

41.3 km
Nagybajcs, Hungary

67.7 km
District of Bratislava I, Slovakia ‐ Mar 18, 2019

87.5 km

Rivers and Bear Hunts

The next two of days spanned 4 countries: the castles of Czechia, a brief muscat-scented dip into Austria, the Slovakian capital of Bratislava, and a border river run in and out of Hungary. To leave A...
Lednice, Czech Republic

60.7 km

Czech Out

A loping cycle along the Czech-Austrian border took me through Znojmo, and couchsurfing host Marek, who's humility and sharp intelligence was incongruous in an otherwise drab border town. The twin cas...
Znojmo ‐ Mar 16, 2019

125 km
České Budějovice ‐ Mar 15, 2019

99.2 km

Mic Czech

The Czech adventure came out of the cold a couple of days ago. From the white hills of Warmsteinach, I crossed the border near Cheb, up the Ohre river valley, to the famous 19th century spa town of Ca...
Míšov ‐ Mar 13, 2019

104.2 km
Carlsbad ‐ Mar 12, 2019

88.7 km
Warmensteinach, Germany ‐ Mar 11, 2019

70.5 km

The Main Sauce

Having not written for a while, this may be some what of a bumper edition. My path through Germany was in the Main river bound, I followed the Rhine and joined the Main at it's mouth city - Mainz. I t...
Bamberg ‐ Mar 10, 2019

76.7 km

+33

Europa
Würzburg ‐ Mar 9, 2019

80 km

Stag Crashers

My maiden 'Stag-Do' also deserves a mention, especially as I was uninvited, and had never met the groom. Casting around for warmshowers hosts in Wurzburg, I came into contact with David, who explained...
Aschaffenburg, Germany ‐ Mar 8, 2019

85 km
Mainz ‐ Mar 7, 2019

90 km
Koblenz ‐ Mar 4, 2019

85 km

Carnivalia (Netherlands & Rhineland)

The one afternoon I spent in the isolated Dutch province of Limburg was enough to catch the Dutch carnival in full swing. I assumed the brass bands, tractor-pulled floats, and mass enforced fun was an...
Bonn ‐ Mar 3, 2019

69.8 km
Stolberg

90.3 km
Linter, Belgium ‐ Mar 1, 2019

93 km
Geraardsbergen ‐ Feb 28, 2019

78 km

D-Day (Belgium)

2 days rolled into one, and originally planned as such. My host Judith says it was a mad attempt but for a pro cyclist without panniers in Mid-Summer, so partly reassuring... Despite the meticulously...
Kortrijk ‐ Feb 27, 2019

83 km
Dunkirk, France ‐ Feb 26, 2019

133.7 km
Dover, United Kingdom ‐ Feb 24, 2019

62 km
Playden ‐ Feb 25, 2019

83 km

Brighton to Playden

After another warm stay with Laura and Freddie, a much tougher day enfolded than route or weather should have given. So much so that a small bit of encouragement from an equally ragged (and possibly t...
Brighton ‐ Feb 24, 2019

82.9 km

Bramdean to Brighton

A canopy of blue above, heading to the coast, and light in the heart. Again, please.
Bramdean

108.8 km

Bath to Bramdean

A misty morning start parting from the Mother's nest, and along a complex of canals to Devizes. The Caen Hill Locks in Devizes were the engineering marvel to be savoured, the 29 consecutive locks is t...
Bath, United Kingdom ‐ Feb 21, 2019

65.2 km

Raglan to Bath

Well-stocked and well-cared for by a biological mother, rather then the one-night adoptives I'e grown accustomed to, I set off homeward bound, lighter in spirit and weight (she'd taken most of my pann...
Raglan ‐ Feb 20, 2019

101.6 km

+18

UK

Llandeilo to Raglan

Ceaseless punchy welsh hills left this journeyman gasping, and the desolate landscapes only punctuated by sheep did nothing to dispel stereotypes. The castle tour began in the afternoon with Abergaven...
Llandeilo ‐ Feb 19, 2019

88 km

Rosslare to Llandeilo

A previously cancelled ferry is also late a late delivering one, sparking a time trial fever to attempt to get unfeasibly far down the road as planned. Thankfully, an off route but utterly fascinating...
Fishguard
Rosslare, Ireland ‐ Feb 18, 2019

65 km

Waterford to Rosslare

A scrappy day in mindset and practicality, not helped by cancellation of the evening ferry, all lessened and loosened by the alternative day spa at Kelly’s wrinkly resort in Rosslare.
Waterford ‐ Feb 17, 2019

120.8 km

+10

Ireland

Monkstown to Waterford

A cross-country morning matched afternoon cycling the 'jewel in the crown of Irish cycling infrastructure': The Waterford Greenway, a narrow-gauge railway track converted for cyclists. Major thanks go...
Monkstown (South Cork) ‐ Feb 16, 2019

97.2 km

Killarney to Monkstown (South of Cork)

A brief poem spouted in the saddle today on yesterday's reflections:. From Dingle to Killarney, A lover left too far behind me, From the sea where Irish fishermen seek to stand, all the way to a stand...
Killarney

77.1 km

Dingle to Killarney

The wind wrenched away any tears on Asli's or my cheeks at the starting point of Slea Head - the most westerly point of Europe, also a memorable film location for much of the recent Star Wars saga. A...
Slea Head (westernmost point) ‐ Feb 15, 2019

And it begins...
Brandon's Mountain, Ireland ‐ Feb 14, 2019

Brandon's Journey West

6th century monks traveling to America and back in traditional currach boats may see the stuff of fantasy, but it was our local myth not far from our cottage before the trip. St. Brandon purportedly s...

Nuremberg, Germany ‐ Feb 10, 2019

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