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Paul Berney
Jun 74 min
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 25, 20216 min
Day 12 - the end is in sight
I started day 12 of my ride sitting in the sun in the market square in Salisbury sipping coffee and watching the world go by. This is a...
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Paul Berney
Aug 21, 20213 min
Day 8 - Easy Does it
Throughout this trip I've been staying in a combination of Premier Inn hotels, Airbnb's and with some friends. Last nights Airbnb,...
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Paul Berney
Aug 19, 20213 min
Day 6 - up Ventoux*
Today was a game of two halves: a morning spent with a new friend and the first solo kilometres of the trip this afternoon. First things...
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Paul Berney
Aug 16, 20213 min
RTLWH Day 3 - it's all about recovery
I'm not sure how many readers of this blog are familiar with the concept of there being different types of fun, but it goes something...
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Paul Berney
Aug 15, 20213 min
RTLWH - Day 2. The road to Wigan's here
I think there is a special sense of accomplishment when you complete something you were convinced that you couldn't do. By lunchtime...
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Paul Berney
Apr 17, 20181 min
Rapha say "Yes!"
Well this makes me excited all over again. I met with Aleda Fitzpatrick of Rapha Cycle Club today by chance at the Clubhouse in soho. I...
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