By Artur Ciesielski | Adventure , Places
This was a hard day or riding. 2,800 feet of assent in a very short time. Livignio is a small town in the Italian Alps. The only access is via car and bus, no trains here, yet it has a special tax status and a shopping street to go with it, with hundreds of products […]
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Day Two in the Davos area. We’re actually staying in a small village near Davos called Kloisters, it’s much more charming and beautiful then the more teutonic Davos. Unlike the cloudy and dreary yesterday, today started and ended off with some beautiful weather. Breakfast was good: I had three cappuccinos and a white coffee: they […]
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Day one: pick up and a 2 hour drive to a hotel near Davos, Switzerland. Getting the bikes ready for the ride after some lunch of Goulash size Gross = large. A view from one of the trails. Lots of good views, but I did not get too many chances to take photos. Taking the […]
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I got to Czestochowa just after noon. I left the norka at 7:30. It was not an easy ride, but it was fun. The sand got to me, but the cycling path in the first photo below was the fresh cream with wild sour cherry on top: just awesome. If the trails were mostly like […]
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The day started out early and pretty awesome. I left the room at 7:30 am. The streets were quiet and empty, the town still asleep or at least just getting ready for the day. The first photo is just a few pedals outside the town on the road to the next destination. It rained during […]
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It’s about 6pm. I’ve had 5 beers and 3 bottles of water, that is 4 liters of liquid, not one pee. It all evaporated or soaked into t0 my clothes. I left the house at 9:45, got to the starting point 10 kilometers later and set off at 10:30. Now some 100 kilometers later I’m […]
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I was, possibly, going to go to Lodz after returning from Zurich, but Lukasz suggested a trip there on my visit this last weekend, so we went. It was really just a short trip. It took 90 minutes to go one way and we had about 5 hours to see a few thing this city […]
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A late start today. Silly me. I forgot to turn off the vibrate feature on my phone. It woke me up. I turned it off and began my two hour ordeal with paranoia or something like that. Despite turning off the vibrate feature I could hear it for TWO hours despite checking and making sure […]
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When the lush green, neatly cut as if a piece of tiles art in hundreds of hues of green, ground came into view the Lufthansa plane was just barely off the ground and seconds from landing. Shaking and rattling from the turbulence the small plane, only half full, approached the wet runway. It overran its […]
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For the next 5 weeks or so – Krakow, Zurich, Bruges [maybe], Copenhagen, small towns in the Alps and camp sites along the Orlich Gniazd route will be my homes, sometimes for a few days, and often for a night. My whole life will be lived from one backpack. Half the time I’ll be on […]
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This is not a full review. I did some searching online for what impressions others had with this Vivobarefoot shoe in real use. I found only 1 and I’m not sure how much they really used the shoe, so this will be my attempt at providing my real world impressions. These are just my initial impressions. […]
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First a warning of incoming thunderstorms and a dust-storm than a beautiful sky with clouds and colors which I have not seen in years.
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