Not a bad year. I did fewer races than normal and almost no ski touring. Still I fitted in another Giro Sardinia and we had another nice sea kayaking trip in Sweden in autumn.
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Japan24
Friday 25th October 2024 With not even an hour of sleep I arrived at Narita airport to the North East of Tokyo. Things seemed to go quite smoothly. I managed to book a train for the morning, inquired about potentially leaving luggage and at 4pm I was unpacking my bike that had survived the flight…
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Autumn adventures Sept 2024
I took the train to Munich on a Wednesday evening and on Thursday Johannes and I set off for the Dachstein mountains in Austria. We had booked an apartment in the wops and were planning to do some gravel biking. Initially our plans had been to ride the Tour de Kärnten Gravel but it got…
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Sea kayaking Sweden August 2024
Another sea kayaking trip to Sweden! Tuesday I took the early train to the airport from Johannes’s flat in Munich, where I’d been staying and flew to Gothenburg arriving a few minutes before Ari. We took the bus into the centre and found our way to the rental car depot by the use of unpaid…
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Summer road trip Aug 2024
It was time for a summer road trip and Ari and I rented a car and headed South to the expensive lands of the Swiss. Thursday We drove to Ticino where they’d accidentally left the heating on. We camped near the river not too far from Ponte Brolla in a camping ground I’ve stayed…
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Bikepacking Poulter 2024
For something different, Simon, Katie and I planned a bike packing trip. I had an abundance of bike packing gear lying around from previous trips and over zealous purchasing from Ali Express. Katie borrowed a little more gear for herself and between us we kitted out three bikes for a short trip up the Poulter…