Today’s ride on Komoot What a strange day. It was a cold night up in the hills. It didn’t rain much after I had my dinner, but the temps were definitely down on what I’m used to. I even got out my Trifecta – a thermal sleeping bag cover that improved things no end. It …
Today’s ride on Komoot Today was a day of two halves like any good game of rugby league – sorry, I listened to Roy and HG’s Bludging on the Blind side podcast for the first part of the day. Too much sport really was barely enough. It was a flat boring little ride into Lamia, …
Today, I was tired after two hard days back riding from my two weeks of rest and magnificent relaxation in the Greek Isles. Luckily, there was nobody around in the morning to make me hurry, and while I’d always like to get going early, my natural laziness kicks in and says – John, this is …
Today’s ride on Komoot I had my usual – take it easy – morning with breakfast and coffee in the room. I also had a call with my old workmate, Martin R who has bike toured in Europe. It’s always nice to have calls with friends and family from home, but it meant I had …
Today’s ride on Komoot It was raining this morning, so I delayed my departure and went and got some breakfast. I repacked which wasn’t simple, because I got a new handlebar bag yesterday. Now I’ve got to work out where everything goes all over again. That’ll take a week or so I think. I had …
I spent three nights on Syros and six on Antiparos. It’s the Orthodox Easter so it’s busy everywhere, but strangely, not all accommodation or food options are open. Syros was very nice, even quite touristy. It’s early May and I expected things to be ramping up much more. People are still cleaning and renovating restaurants, …
Today’s ride on Komoot Today was a short day. I had to ride a few kms to the port in Salamina then get a ferry to the mainland. Komoot has a ferry route marked that goes to Piraeus but I suspect that is for foot passengers only. The car ferry goes to Perama which is …
Today’s ride on Komoot It was pretty quiet and restful beside the taverna, but the buses for the package tourists got ready early on. I decided to make my way back up to the bridge over the canal and check out the breakfast options there. It was six kms of uphills, but it was over …
Today’s ride on Komoot Today was another one where I wasn’t sure where I’d end up. I couldn’t be certain that any camping options would be open, and the accommodation options didn’t look interesting or reasonable. None of that really mattered because I was interested to see the Corinth Canal. I’d work the rest out …
Today’s ride on Komoot There wasn’t much reason to hang around but I still dawdled as I only had about 45kms to the next camping ground. The tent and my bike were covered in brown dust in the morning. Days later, I’d find out that this was dust blown in from Africa and that Athens …
