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Back in the UK

17 April 2013

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A month in Cuba isn’t really enough to see everything that the country has to offer by bike. I could have got a visa extension, but there was something more important that meant I couldn’t stay – my grandparents’ 60th wedding anniversary. I’d promised them more than a year earlier that I’d be home for [...]

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Long awaited

26 April 2011

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First off, I’m going to apologise that this took a while. I don’t remember if I’ve mentioned so far but I’m not always the fastest at communicating. Ask friends or family of mine and they’ve probably all received an e-mail from me that started with an apology for it’s lateness. This being a couple of [...]

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Mini tour part 2

11 April 2011

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The following day started with another wonderful meal. My granddad makes some very tasty food. After concerns that I was going to eat all the food in his house I was offered a lift to Broadbents the family electrical shop that my uncle is in charge of nowadays. We strapped my bike to the back [...]

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Mini tour and other news

11 April 2011

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A week ago I did my first mini tour. It was a pretty successful ride that highlighted no big problems and reassured me that things were on track. I’ll get to that in a minute, but first,  news of my latest purchases. Yesterday and today I decided to get a few more things knocked off [...]

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Changes

29 March 2011

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Today the site’s tagline “or so the plan says” proved apt and gave a wonderful example of the unpredictability of this trip. My sister, who is 2 years older than me, has decided that she is going to join me for the North American leg of the trip. This isn’t quite a spur of the [...]

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Shopping + finance

17 March 2011

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For the first time in a good while I’ve not bought anything online today! Over the last 10 days I’ve bought 34 items and only had to send one back for a refund. Instead of shopping I decided to go out for a short ride today. I had a few reasons to go out Break [...]

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GPS plugin

10 March 2011

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I have a Garmin GPS that I will be bringing with me on the trip. It records gps data whenever it is on and so today I went for the first ride on my new shiny Thorn. Here’s the result The bike felt good but my saddle is going to take a bit of getting [...]

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Spending money and fast delivery

9 March 2011

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Since my last entry 2 days ago things have started coming together a bit faster than I was expecting. After deciding on and ordering a tent I headed out for the day with my dad. Just before heading home I realised that there was a cheap bike shop near by. 30 minutes later and 4 [...]

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And so it starts

7 March 2011

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The website. An almost essential part of any journey is to document it. Especially for people like myself who have a terrible memory, something like this is great so in a few years I can look back and see what I was thinking. It’s also a much more convenient way to keep my family, friends [...]

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