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Paul Berney
Jun 74 min read
Day 11 - Back home again
It seems fitting that on the final day of this year's Riding the Long Way Home trip that it ended up being a mix of cycling and a train...
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Paul Berney
Jun 64 min read
Day 10 heading to Cambridge
Well, apart from the shock to the system of the 6:30am start, the crappy road services again and reacquainting myself with hills, that...
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Paul Berney
Jun 54 min read
Day 9 off to the ferry
You know things must be improving when I want to complain about coffee. I was going to start today's blog with a small rant about coffee...
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Paul Berney
Jun 34 min read
Day 8 Kleve to Oosterwijk 118km
Well, there you go. The longest ride of the trip so far, almost all on dedicated bike paths moving from Germany to the Netherlands. An...
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Paul Berney
Jun 24 min read
Day 7 Dusseldorf to Kleve 98km
While not exactly a cliffhanger, when I posted my blog last night I was still on the train heading towards Frankfurt hoping not to be...
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Paul Berney
Jun 16 min read
Day 6 middle of nowhere to Neustadt 38km
WhatsApp conversation this morning. Me: This is not turning out to be the trip I planned. My mate Ieaun: Why don’t you just tell people...
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Paul Berney
May 313 min read
Day 4 Passau to Landshut 28km*
"If it wasn't for bad luck wouldn't have no luck at all" Albert King Do you ever have the feeling that you are cursed? I’m starting to...
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Paul Berney
May 316 min read
Day 5 Landshut to Gisselthausen - 32km
Tomorrow I’m expecting a plague of locusts or frogs, as the gods of cycling continue to punish me for some unknown crime. Today I may as...
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Paul Berney
May 294 min read
Day 3: Linz to Passau 98km
Arriving in Passau and crossing the border in Germany has reminded me of the funniest thing I ever heard a German say (surprisingly they...
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Paul Berney
May 294 min read
Day 2: Krems to Linz. 50km.
In the language that brought us 'schadenfreude', inevitably there must be a word in German for that feeling you have when you think you...
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Paul Berney
May 283 min read
Day 1: Vienna Airport to Krems an der Donau. 105km
It's been a while eh? After what seems like years, I'm finally off on another solo long ride home. This will be my longest. If everything...
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Paul Berney
Aug 8, 20232 min read
Day 11 - hooray for Calais
I'm currently reading Jenny Graham's account of her record breaking solo ride around the world, "Coffee first, then the world". Apart...
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Paul Berney
Aug 7, 20233 min read
Day 10 - I'm bored of France now
This is going to disappoint the sadists among you, but today was much easier and almost incident free. I know some of you like a bit of...
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Paul Berney
Aug 7, 20234 min read
Day 9 - riding the long way home
No you didn't miss day 8. It was a transfer day and we spent 10 hours driving from Italy to France. Let's start with the numbers,...
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Paul Berney
Aug 5, 20232 min read
Day 7 - the mini Stelvio
Oh it's all happy smiling faces now that the week together has come to an end. In beautiful morning sunshine four of us chose to ride up...
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Paul Berney
Aug 3, 20234 min read
Day 6 - The Gavia
What I really need is my own personal camera crew following me around this week. That way they would have captured my miserable looking...
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Paul Berney
Aug 3, 20233 min read
Day 5 The Stelvio
How do you cope when something you have been looking forward to for ages turns out to be a disappointment? Or more specifically, when you...
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Paul Berney
Aug 3, 20232 min read
Day 4 - Some gentle climbing
Day 4 - A mixed bag The hotel receptionist was unequivocal - 'tomorrow is better. Today will be rain'. Much discussion ensued over an...
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Paul Berney
Aug 3, 20232 min read
Days 1,2 & 3 - The Longest Drive
Days 1, 2 & 3 At the request of my mate Brian, I've restarted my blog to cover this year's long ride home. It's not really a long ride...
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Paul Berney
Jun 5, 20233 min read
Results for The 48 2023
Well, here they are, the results that confirmed what we already knew, that David is a machine and won The 48 for the second year in a...
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