So here we go again. Lads adventure number 4, 3rd bike ride. Months of training over, excited and apprehensive but really looking forward to the whole thing. The alarm went of at some ridiculous time of 3.45 this morning and after I struggled out of bed and started to get ready, actually felt quite excited […]
Neil Driver’s 425 Mile fundraising cycle ride
On 9 October I leave on my latest challenge. This time it is a 425 mile cycle ride from North to South Israel. This challenge will be for 8 days of cycling. One of the reasons is to raise funds for Prostate Cancer UK. Click here for Neil’s giving page. All donations will be most appreciated. […]
Day 4 – Arrived in Paris -Saturday 21 June 2014
We have arrived in Paris!!! Amazingly the day passed without major incident, although it started in usual comical fashion with Stuart going the wrong way out of the hotel car park! We cycled in glorious weather through lovely open countryside but the last 20 or so miles were through the suburbs and into Central Paris. […]
Day 4 – Paris here we come – last leg (or is that last legs!!!) Saturday 21 June 2014
Just a quick pic of us before we started our ride in the morning. More later
Day 3 – More of the same Friday 20 June 2014
Dear blog fans. We are now in Beauvais , about 55 miles from Paris. It was another eventful day! Despite all the mishaps, mainly due to going on the wrong route, we are having a laugh, being challenged and enjoying it. It’s a shame there is only 1 day left. I suppose the highlight of […]
Day 2 – A Good One Thursday 19 June 2014
At the moment we are 1-0 down in the game against Uruguay. I’m losing interest in the game and so thought I would fill you in with today’s details. Thankfully today was superb even though I only got about 5 hours sleep! A nice breakfast and coffee was a good set up for the morning and the weather […]
The Basil Fawlty of Cycle Tours!!! Wednesday 18 June 2014
Hi all, This needs to be brief as it’s 2am in France on Thursday morning, (1 am at home) and we have just got to the hotel and showered etc! You may get the gist from that sentence, that today didn’t quite go to plan. Well, the expected 85 miles in say 6 or 7 […]
Ready for the off
So here we are. 11pm the night before the morning after! All settled into the room at our hotel in Blackheath, looking forward to the 5am wake up call for breakfast at 5.30 and start at 6.30. That’s the first surprise as I thought we were having breakfast an hour later! Oh well , I’ll […]
Los Angeles to Paris!
It’s been quite some time since the last post so I shall give a quick update. We were all euphoric at having finished this epic journey and were pretty proud of ourselves – in short it had been a great challenge and experience. We rode through some amazing countryside and pushed ourselves to extreme limits at […]