Distance: 120.2 km Ride time: 6:41:49 Average: 18.0 km/h Max speed: 52.2 km/h Total: 44442 km It seems to me that shops are closing very early in South Africa. Here in Springbok, even the fast food chain Wimpy closes at 7 pm. Perhaps people are up early then? Well, the streets were still pretty empty [ Read More ]
Distance: 98.0 km Ride time: 6:50:24 Average: 14.3 km/h Max speed: 44.6 km/h Total: 44322 km Last time I had pitched my tent was on Newfoundland in Canada back in September. Now I had just enjoyed another fine night wild camping next to the road in South Africa. The two places have the thing in [ Read More ]
Distance: 97.0 km Ride time: 6:17:19 Average: 15.4 km/h Max speed: 52.2 km/h Total: 44224 km Wise from experience I was on the road by 6:30 – undoubtedly the best part of the day to be cycling in this part of South Africa. I had left the dirt road behind and was now rolling up [ Read More ]
Distance: 55.2 km Ride time: 4:27:44 Average: 12.4 km/h Max speed: 43.6 km/h Total: 44127 km As I left the friendly couple at the Hanzu B&B in Lutzville, their goodbye warning was “watch out out there, the temperature will reach 44 degrees today”. I guess I should have checked the forecast myself as this was [ Read More ]
Distance: 72.1 km Ride time: 3:56:44 Average: 18.3 km/h Max speed: 55.1 km/h Total: 44072 km What better way to start the day than with a nice little milestone to celebrate! 44.000 kilometers have taken me through Europe, Asia, Oceania and the Americas. If my calculations are correct I should just about hit 60K before [ Read More ]
Distance: 26.1 km Ride time: 2:14:33 Average: 11.6 km/h Max speed: 25.2 km/h Total: 43995 km I woke up to the sound of waves in my hut, and as I started cycling I could hear the waves all day from the beach only a few hundred meters away. Good cycling indeed! In the beginning of [ Read More ]
Distance: 100.3 km Ride time: 6:37:21 Average: 15.2 km/h Max speed: 29.9 km/h Total: 43965 km As I said my farewells to the friendly guest house owners where I had stayed, they gave a final warning “Be careful out there, every black man wants a bicycle”. Hmm, I’m not really sure what they wanted to [ Read More ]
Distance: 123.7 km Ride time: 5:59:13 Average: 20.7 km/h Max speed: 54.4 km/h Total: 43865 km I was feeling excited and also somewhat nervous as I stood there at the square in front of the Cape Town railway station, ready to set off for this African adventure. The preparations were finally complete – now it [ Read More ]
A visit to Cape Town wouldn’t be complete without a hike up Table Mountain. Normally you would be able to take a cable car there, but due to strong winds it didn’t run. I was happy enough to walk though. During my break in Denmark I hadn’t been doing much exercising. Luckily the legs seemed [ Read More ]
The heat hit me as a wall as I stepped out of the airport in Cape Town. As I’m used to travel with the speed of a bicycle, I almost couldn’t believe that I had left the northern winter for a southern summer just like that. A new country, a new continent, a new beginning! [ Read More ]
