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My sleep was as crap as every other nights sleep. To qualify, the beds are good and it’s nice and quiet, I just can’t sleep properly. The other thing is that the rooms are very warm and there’s no way to manage the temperature. I just opened my windows at night to let some cool air in. Start time for …
Today was the day where I wanted to get everything in place, get a nice ride in and otherwise relax as much as possible before what I knew would be a very difficult yet hopefully satisfying day tomorrow. It started with breakfast. Danish waffles with jam and icing sugar, fruit, bread with cheese and ham and a nice cuppa tea. …
The TT out of the way, I could now focus on the road race which meant taking of the tri bars off and putting the bottle cages back on. There, that’s better! Now you look like a real road bike. I also had to figure out how to get from my hostel to the station and then make sure I …
My date with destiny started with a leisurely breakfast at the hostel, very leisurely. My start time was 3:15pm so there was no hurry. But with nothing else to do, I got my gear on and prepped the bike for my first TT adventure. It was beautiful and sunny as I rolled out, relishing my first ride in Denmark. I …
Started with breakfast at my Copenhagen hotel. Lots of nice things to choose from – great crusty, seeded bread that I dropped cheese, ham and egg onto. Glad to see I wasn’t the only one who poured yoghurt into a glass expecting it to be fruit juice… They were juice containers I tell you! Of course I kept filling up …
You really don’t get a full appreciation for the extent to which people in many European cities utilise bicycles until you’ve been there. I tried to take photos which would reflect the sheer number of bicycles parked beside the road and outside buildings along the streets but they all came up well short of conveying the numbers. There are literally …
After a somewhat disconcerting previous evening where a Qantas staff member told me that I would have to ship my bike via Qantas Freight and arrange this at 5am this morning, I am finally ready and calm 😜. The 5am call yielded no outcome as they didn’t open till 7. Thanks very frick’n much. A follow up call to Qantas …
