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7 May 2024 3 minute read 2 comments 7th Decade Redhead
It's travel days and we are off for our amazing bike tour in Europe. We left the house way too early in the morning only because of all the flooding that has happened in our area and we had an hour and a half drive to the airport. We did not encount...
26 Apr 2024 5 minute read 1 comment 7th Decade Redhead
Well.... He did it again. For the second time in six years, my husband has convinced me that we should drag our nine-foot-long recumbent tandem bicycle over to Europe for a bicycle tour. We will be putting ourselves and our Rans Screamer (yes that's...
4 Jun 2024 8 minute read 0 comments 7th Decade Redhead
Prague to Benesov, 40.5 miles (65 km), 4h 25 minutes, 2504 feet (763 m) of elevation gain (climbing). I was woefully (and I mean WOEFULLY) unprepared. If you have read my other blog (60 Pounds by 60 Years), you know that I lost 70 pounds last year...
22 Oct 2023 6 minute read 0 comments 7th Decade Redhead
(photos courtesy of 7th Decade Redhead) The year 2018 was filled with changes for us. My husband had retired, I had sort of retired and we embraced our new-found freedom by doing some things we’d always talked about doing. In June, we finally made...
6 Jun 2024 4 minute read 0 comments 7th Decade Redhead
Day Two: Benesov to Tabor, 39.6 miles (64 km), 4h 13m, 2991 (911 m) feet of elevation gain (climbing). After yesterday's realization that it wasn't going to be a nice easy ride to Passau, I gritted my teeth, whined when I needed to vent my frustra...
12 Sep 2022 1 minute read 0 comments RealSociology
The Transport Secretary, Grant Shapps, recently mooted the idea of imposing tighter regulations on cyclists in the UK. He raised the possibility of introducing registration plates for bicycles and insurance for riders, suggesting this would be an ef...
6 Jan 2022 2 minute read 0 comments bengy
Ahhh.... looking back at my long list of photos that I wanted to post about, there are now many fond memories of my time in Europe. Actually, quite a few... seeing as I have quite a long backlog of things and places that I have visited that I re...
17 Jun 2024 6 minute read 0 comments 7th Decade Redhead
Traismauer to Vienna, Austria, 44.6 miles (72 km), 3 hours 13 minutes, 550 feet (167 m), of elevation (climbing). As you can tell it was a very flat ride today. I was so happy about that given how long a ride it was. The weather was fabulous a...
11 Jun 2024 8 minute read 0 comments 7th Decade Redhead
I have no exact mileage information for this day because we used the tour company's GPS routing in their phone app and that information is no longer available to us. Whatever the mileage was, we rode more than that.... and then some. This post is r...
16 Jun 2024 5 minute read 0 comments 7th Decade Redhead
Day Eleven 23.8 miles (38 km), 2 hours 12 minutes, 405 feet (123 m) of elevation (climbing). It was a hodgepodge of sights today. As we rode along the Danube, we realized we were in wine country. We rode by so many vine-covered hillsides that i...
