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23/11/2014

Jamie on the road to Madrid, Spain

Location: Bowerchalke, England
Day 1,606
Miles on the clock: 43,630

Gibraltar is an odd place. The road signs are British but people drive on the right. The people are British but most speak with soft Spanish lisps. I had a pint of tepid Old Speckled Hen in The Lord Nelson on the afternoon I arrived. I was killing time, waiting for my friend Jamie's flight to get in. As is happened, a thick fog shrouded Gibraltar rock that evening and the plane was redirected to Malaga. I heard staff in the airport making jovial banter about the "pea-souper" that had fallen.

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Into Scandanavia

22/7/2010

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Day 22
Location: Ljusdal, Sweden
Miles covered: 1720

I was swept out of Amsterdam amid a somnolent tide of Dutch commuters, bleary-eyed from celebrations having reached the world cup final the previous night. Trying, and failing, to imitate the perfect, straight-backed postures of those around me, I drifted alongside the waterways and followed the coast around an inland sea. As evening hovered I was very suddenly besieged by insects as they lurched into life after lying in the grass all day. They positively pelted me as I passed and lodged themselves severally among my arm hairs and fledgeling beard. At one point I noticed that my billowing breast pocket had filled with probably close to 200 crawling, writing black shapes which had struck my chest and fallen in.

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One week on the road

7/7/2010

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Setting off with a cuppa...

After six days and almost 500 miles on the road I've arrived in Amsterdam and am enjoying a morning off, my first since embarking. The going has been good and the Low Countries are delightfully flat making the riding fairly effortless and allowing time to enjoy the often peerless landscapes.

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