The very best Christmas greetings to everyone from the Great Ocean Road, 300 km from Melbourne, Australia. I hope you will have a wonderful day with your loved ones. My Christmas gift this year was a steady tail wind all the 90 km I have cycled today. After Christmas I will go to Melbourne where I will [ Read More ]
Distance: 97.59 km Ridetime: 5:36:43 Average: 17.4 km/h Max speed: 25.9 km/h Total distance: 16211 km I woke up at 6 o’clock but decided to sleep an hour longer as I waited for the sun to warm things up a bit. By the way, I’m never using an alarm clock these days. Going to bed [ Read More ]
Distance: 98.70 km Ridetime: 5:58:43 Average: 16.1 km/h Max speed: 32.6 km/h Total distance: 16113 km After just 9 km of cycling in the morning I met Lukas from Germany. His cycle trip started in Brisbane and his plan is to cycle all around Australia. A trip of about 15.000 km. Quite amazing since I’m “only” at 16.000 these days. Australia [ Read More ]
Distance: 120.28 km Ridetime: 6:01:17 Average: 20.0 km/h Max speed: 48.9 km/h Total distance: 16014 km In the morning I said goodbye to Sasi and his family, thanking them for an amazing stay in Adelaide! While I had been very tired when I arrived at Sasi’s place four days ago, I was now feeling well [ Read More ]
Sleeping in a real bed, having access to electricity and a shower – after travelling through the Outback these things feel like luxury. While I stayed with my friend Sasi and his family in a suburb of Adelaide I enjoyed their company and the luxury very much! As Sasi and his family are form India [ Read More ]
Distance: 118.99 km Ridetime: 5:41:56 Average: 20.9 km/h Max speed: 40.4 km/h Total distance: 15894 km The sunrise didn’t live up to the beautiful sunset last night. This morning it was cold, gray, and rainy. With a temperature of 16 degrees it felt more like a summer day in Denmark than in Australia. I was [ Read More ]
Distance: 137.20 km Ridetime: 7:40:03 Average: 17.9 km/h Max speed: 51.3 km/h Total distance: 15775 km It had been my idea to ride on the main highway from Port Augusta to Adelaide but it turned out to be a bad idea. The trucks were now passing with more than 100 km/h and there was not [ Read More ]
Distance: 102.11 km Ridetime: 4:27:49 Average: 22.9 km/h Max speed: 42.1 km/h Total distance: 15638 km After a great nights sleep in a real bed for the first time since leaving Alice Springs, Paul served breakfast and took me for a ride around the block in his Fort A from 1928. Afterwards I went to [ Read More ]
Distance: 131.29 km Ridetime: 6:25:23 Average: 20.4 km/h Max speed: 44.5 km/h Total distance: 15536 km I woke before sunrise to the sound of two shuts being fired from a riffle! I knew this would be aboriginals hunting kangaroos, but it still made me nervous. After all I had hidden my tent in a spot [ Read More ]
Distance: 115.05 km Ridetime: 7:15:17 Average: 15.9 km/h Max speed: 43.4 km/h Total distance: 15405 km Yesterday I had seen several signs for “Lake Gairdner” and “Lake Hart” so I thought I was about to see some water. Not really. These lakes are salt lakes that most of the time don’t hold any water. They [ Read More ]
