Puerto Natales, 0km (Total 705Km cycled)
Highlights: Sunny, no wind, steak, lentil stew, waiting, more lentil stew, more waiting, cake swapping and finding out that our tent is a godsend and pancakes.
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Day 33-45: 11th - 22nd Februa...
Puerto Natales, Torres del Paine, Puerto Natales 8km (Total 705Km cycled)
Highlights: Rain, snow, hail, wind, stunning views of Los Cuernos in Torres del Paine, Peli's pannier plays hide and seek and a flying overtake by my red pannier.
Porvenir, Punta Arenas, Puerto Natales 30th Jan - 4th Feb 2012. 60Km (Total 690Km cycled)
Highlights: Steak, wind, broken spokes, veggie curry, cake and meeting other cycle tourers.
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Day 22,23,24 and 25: 31th Jan. to the 2nd ...
Rio Grande, Bellavista, Cameron, Porvenir 21/01/2012 - 30/01/2012. 322Km (Total 619Km cycled)
Highlights: leaving Rio Grande, the flight of the condors, wind, guanacos, Chilean border crossing, wind, illegal garlic, epic night-riding, wind, never-ending ripio, wild camping, and did we mentio...
Back in 2012 we were cycle touring in Argentina, Patagonia. Below is some of the things we learned while there, so it might be valid still and also written like we are about to go or just arrived :)
Here is all the blog posts I wrote about our cycle tour in Argentina.
Maps
Google map is prett...
Ushuaia - Tolhuin - Rio Grande, 14/01/2012 - 17/01/2012. 297Km (Total 297Km cycled)
Highlights: great views over Ushuaia as we left; our first passport control; wild camping and tasty camp food; meeting other cycle tourists heading south on the last leg of their journeys; heeding warnings ab...
While in Buenos Aires we got an email from our very good friend Emily, who should be in Iran as I type this, on her around-the-world tour. She let us know that a friend of hers would be in Ushuaia at the same time as we'd be there.
So, we hooked up with Angela, a lovely and very inspiring lady, an...
Not the easiest thing to find when you search on a search engine.
Though there is plenty places near by and even one on the outskirts of Ushuaia.
There is a few free/wild campsites (camping municipal) in the Tierra del Fuego National Park and near Rio Pipo. Problally the best looking one, from w...
We toyed with the idea of going cycling on the free bicycles in Buenos Aires, or even to take one of the guided bike tours. But, it was simply way too hot and humid to even consider doing more than slow walking, or shuffling when it got really hot, for short distances.
Buenos Aires is built in a...
First of all, if you're wondering why there are no tales or photos of bicycles yet, it's because we're officially Being Tourists in Buenos Aires while acclimatising. The cycling won't start until we arrive in Ushuaia (so if we're boring you, you might want to wait until Thursday to hear about our ad...
We had breakfast in the hostel - some sweet little mini croissants called medialunas, tea (without milk as only hot was available - Peli deems this a serious situation, and a solution will be sought for future breakfasts) and bread with delicious "dulce de leche" (caramel milk, like the stuff at the...
We arrived at the airport with plenty of spare time thanks to the help - in the form of a chauffeur to Gatwick - of our good friends.
We needed that extra time to get my massive bike box (large as it's also containing the Extrawheel trailer) through the security checks since it would be too big fo...
We are getting closer to the day of departure so it is time to get the right jabs. What vaccinations to get, well that depends on where you are going. Our trip is rather open, with no fixed day-to-day itinerary which means that we're not 100% sure where we will be in, say, 8 months' time. You also n...
I met Stephen Lord a few years ago at a event at The Royal Geographical Society in London. We had a good old chat and he let me know about his book, The Adventure Cycle Touring Handbook. At the time, he told me I should hold my horses since the second edition was about to go to print.
This book is...
Come sing along with me ...
There's a hole in the pannier, dear Peli, dear Peli,
There's a hole in the pannier, dear Peli, dear Peli,
Then fix it, dear woolly, dear woolly, dear woolly,
Then fix it, dear woolly, dear woolly, fix it.
So, I did!
I have been using one of the Ortlieb Bike-...
We have just spent four days in the Peak District in the north of England, pootling about and enjoying the views. And, of course, sampling some excellent cake.
Last year we "raced" through the Peaks up and over the hills and down into and up out of the valleys. This part of the world is rather lum...
Denmark, where the wind is our mountains.
Denmark, along with Holland, is probably the country you hear about first when you start to talk about cycling. If you are thinking about doing a cycle tour or going somewhere to test out your cycling legs, you can't go wrong with Denmark: plenty of cycle...
We had a bit of unfinished business to do with touring with our friends Peter and Janet, aka the Wowbaggers.
We planned to do a weekend tour and were looking for a place to go. Last weekend Peli and Mr. Wow were out pootling and spotted a nice site for a bit of camping. So plans were afoot, and we...
More wind, single track offroading, history, visit to Germany, two utterly brilliant campsites and even a song from Peli.
03/06/2011:
As normal my folks' B&B trumped any other. We left with full stomachs following a lovely breakfast on the terrace. With a light lunch packed we headed toward the...
Sandwich, sun, rolling hills, good company but missing two, the wind that became mountains and mum's yummy home made ice cream
31/05/2011:
Gus arrived on the dot of nine thirty and we had a good old natter before we had to part company with the Wowbaggers, with a tear in our eye. Fem cyklister b...
Basic toilet, HC Anderson birthplace and the train over the bridge to Sjælland and a trip to the hospital.
28/05/2011:
We woke up and found that the owners had left early and we still had the pressing problem of where and how to do our "bio break" as the Americans call it. With a bucket and some...
Lurgy, seasickness, the hunt for a hotdog and our first stay "i det fri" in Denmark and our first taste of the wind
25/06/2011:
The last two weeks I've been playing with a fluey-buggy thing that wouldn't really kick in properly. Which, of course, meant that two nights before our departure to Den...
This is taken from our recent week long cycling holiday in Croatia where we cycled on the Adriatic coast from Dubrovnik to Trogir just north of Split.
I'm writing this up mainly to tell you about my experience because I have read many other people's write ups about Croatia. And all have said the...
I know I'm a bit late to this, well I just spotted it. :)
Even if we were there a little over a month after the earthquake in September 2010 and experienced a rather hard after shock. We had our best holiday and cycle tour ever, our visit to New Zealand will stay in our hearts for ever.
We had w...
We spent nearly five weeks cycle touring in New Zealand on the south island and most nights we camped in our Blacks Octane 3 tent.
As we found in Australia, they have camping sorted here down under: utterly spotless facilities, and brilliant service. If you should visit New Zealand do not shy...
