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Paul Berney
- Aug 8
- 2 min
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
- 3 min
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
- 4 min
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
- 2 min
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
- 4 min
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
- 3 min
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
- 2 min
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
- 2 min
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 6, 2022
- 2 min
Results from The 48
For people who love to scrutinise the details in the results, they are set out below David covered the greatest distance, spent the most...
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Paul Berney
- Aug 27, 2021
- 1 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, 2021
- 3 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, 2021
- 6 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, 2021
- 4 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, 2021
- 4 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, 2021
- 4 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, 2021
- 3 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, 2021
- 3 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, 2021
- 4 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, 2021
- 3 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, 2021
- 3 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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