Posted: Sun Aug 05, 2012 2:22 pm
Travel on the continent is in a whole different class to hideously overcrowded Britainel-nicko wrote:Well knowing the speeds I have to 'hit' to cover the 50 miles between (for instance) my daughters house in Wolverhampton and my place in Herefordshire in an hour (albeit mostly on 'B' roads), I find a 1000 miles a day, day after day, inconprehensible. Makes me feel like a snail in comparisonslparry wrote: What stunned me was finding Kevin and Julia Sanders were averaging 1000 miles per day for 19 days on their circumnavigation of the world.
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. I seem to recall being told that France was something like 3 times the surface area as the UK with a similar population size hence so much less hassle to ride in, with the exception of the Paris Periphique ... .that place often scares the bejeesus out of me at peak times I did some courier work at one time and often had a run from north Wales to Heathrow, then a pick up in London to go to Glasgow, that's a long old day I tell you, by the time you get back to north Wales you're sick of bikes
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