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3 Jan 2025 5 minute read 0 comments 7th Decade Redhead
Petronell-Carnuntum, Austria to Bratislava, Slovakia, 1 hour 43 minutes, 19.6 miles (31.5 km), 470 feet (143 m) of elevation (climbing). Today started out with rain, and we were unsure how that would impact our ride. Since it was a really short...
2 Jan 2025 4 minute read 0 comments 7th Decade Redhead
Vienna, Austria to Petronell-Carnuntum, Austria; 32.8 miles (52 km), 2 hours and 41 minutes, 599 feet (182 m) of elevation climbing. We had a very interesting start to the day. First, we had to retrieve our bicycle from the hotel's underground g...
1 Jan 2025 4 minute read 0 comments 7th Decade Redhead
I know, I'm so far behind on this blog. I'm trying to get back to finishing it. I think I have put off writing about Vienna because it was a bit of a letdown for me, as we didn't plan well. Today was one of our few 'rest' days. That's in quotes be...
21 Dec 2024 3 minute read 0 comments LeftFooted
I'm at London Stansted Airport, which as most people know is nowhere near London. Back when I was younger and dumber and broke(r), I used to use this airport all the time. This is because this, as most people know, Stansted is London's Ryanair base...
7 Dec 2024 2 minute read 8 comments PVM
Once upon a time I was driving towards a football match and I've noticed a hand written board about a "Scarecrow Festival. I've made a mental note and then google it at home. This is when I've learned about the small civil parish in North Northampton...
3 Dec 2024 1 minute read 2 comments logen9f
Diver City in Odaiba is located east of Tokyo. It's a huge shopping mall in a man-made island. We visited it in my first trip to Japan. It was March 2018 and winter season is not yet over. The day before, we went skiing for us to experience snow. Th...
17 Nov 2024 1 minute read 0 comments Bibana
Shawarma is one of the famous street food in the middle east. This is the Egyptian only chicken plate version with some fries, buns and delicious white garlic sauce. We ate it for a couple of times, and always at the "GAD" restaurant. You must try...
17 Nov 2024 1 minute read 0 comments Bibana
Great Sphinx of Giza on Giza Plateau on the west bank of the Nileone of the 3 bigger pyramids behind& me, Dennis the Menace :D Artefacts exhibited in Egyptian Museum on El Tahrir SquareI'm not sure what exactly they represent. It looked like jewelry...
16 Nov 2024 1 minute read 0 comments LeftFooted
These days I write all day every professionally, and that means I don't really write that much for other reasons. But when I was younger and dumber, I would write articles, for fun and practice, that I would measure in time, not words. A five-minut...
16 Nov 2024 1 minute read 1 comment LeftFooted
As a general rule, I avoid anything that requires a 'deposit' of any kind like the plague. Especially if it's a hotel. There are two reasons for this. A small and unlikely and unrealistic one, and a bigger, more realistic one. First, easiest thing...
