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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 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 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 27, 20211 min
Riding the Long Way Home by the numbers
Distance 1,402km Elevation 14,376m Time 70 hours Speed Average 20kph Weight of fully laden bike 19kg...
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Paul Berney
Aug 26, 20213 min
Day 13 - I have ridden the Long Way Home
It’s inevitable that at the end of a ride like this that I would have mixed emotions. I am happy to have finished, there’s definitely a...
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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 24, 20214 min
Day 11 - sunshine and smiles all round
I've got just two days and roughly 200km to go. 11 days have flown past. Well, 9 days have. The first two were tortuous and each one...
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Paul Berney
Aug 23, 20214 min
Day 10 - a day to remember
Today is always going to stick in my mind for one reason only: it was the day I rode a bike with my Dad for the first and probably only...
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Paul Berney
Aug 22, 20214 min
Day 9 - back to the hard stuff
Well that was a proper Riding the Long Way Home day. It was physically tough enough to leave me knackered and mentally tough enough to...
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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 18, 20214 min
Day 5 - my cycling legs have arrived
My day 5 legs have arrived exactly on schedule. It's like I ordered them on Amazon Prime yesterday, got them out of the box and put them...
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Paul Berney
Aug 17, 20213 min
RTLWH Day 4 - Ooh that's Flash
What the cycling God's can give with one hand they can take away with the other. After yesterday's excellent recovery ride, today was a...
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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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