Mont Ventoux
Trip to Malaucene and Mont Ventoux
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Having set a date to return we we are now biting our nails in case their are any more delays with the roof.
Traveling to Montroy
Nice easy drive to Dublin, stopping once for fuel and a burger. Arrived Dublin port 14:27 W.B.Yates sailed 30 mins late 16:30 So far crossings ok may get rough ...
Athlone Family Weekend
Athlone
Dublin Port Newtownards
The new boat was very impressive and fast 17 hours into Dublin Port. 3 EUR for the tunnel well worth it.
Brehal Cherbourg New Boat
Handy drive up to Cherbourg stopping off at an Aunchan for supplies then on to the port.
Chinon Brehal
Brehal
Chinon
Saturday it rained all day, so we lazed around showered etc and finally went for a walk after tea.
Lembras - Chinon
Woke to the sound of light rain and a cold 11c, got our stuff together and hit the road as the rain got heaver.
Turis - San Sebastion
Got moving just after 09:00, staying on the CV-50 we drove through Liria ans eventually on to the CV-25 to Olocav, Marines, Gatova and down to Segorbe. This tur...
Route Home
Day One
Setting off to Spain
Starting another adventure on, the boat to Cairnryan. Once in Scotland we will drive to Flo's sister in London then the channel tunnel to calais and the long dr...
Quebec and St John
To break up the drive back to St John we overnighted in Quebec city. As the hotel was a fair bit out we used the bus which was quick and easy. The city is nice ...
Montreal
Montreal
Iceland
After a fairly quick flight from Dublin we landed in Iceland to a maniac Kelflavick Airport.
Dunfanaghy
Met Ian and Shirley at the Apple Green then followed them to Dunfanaghy, parking in the town was full so we went on to the car park at the beach near the Golf C...
Alpe d'Huez
Rode the mythical climb for the first time in 20yrs still hard. Discovered a great road back to Allemont fantastic views.
France
Drove back into France today. We finally relented and used the toll roads what a difference it made much better surface no where near as tiring, but a bit hard ...
Germany
Ladenburg
Luxembourg
Before we left Aywaille one more trip to the Jewelers just to view the WRC watch one final time, only for Flo to make the horrendous error of asking the price. ...
More Belgium
Spending our last night in Holland, at an Aire on the Maas in a town called Blerick just beside Venlo. Interesting place overlooking a marina and major cargo po...
Holland
After spending an expensive hour in Fashion for Cycling super store we left Belgium to spend a few days in The Netherlands, arriving at Recreatiepark Duinhoeve ...
Ronde Van Vlaanderen
Up early and a brisk walk to the train station for the first leg of our journey to Ode Kwaremont for the Tour of Flanders.
France and Belgium
Saturday and we finally arrived in Kilrane and meet Frank and Catherine for lunch in Kellys, on Sunday I managed a cycle, meeting everyone for coffee in Karoo. ...
Cork, Family Get Together
Got Lotti into jail and on the road by 10:00 which gave us a clear run to Cork. With a Coffee and fuel stop before we hit Dublin it was plain sailing all the wa...
London
Explored some of Chinatown on our way to tonight's show in Eastcastle Street if we can find it.
Eddys First Trip
A bit of a shake down run in Eddy and what seemed a very long drive through Dublin we arrive in Kilfenane Where we will spend our first night. Turned out to be ...
Mallorca
Arrive on time even after the delay while sick person got off loaded. Picked up the hire car and just waiting for Garth and Darel to arrive.
Flo's Birthday
Flo's birthday treat is the usual scrum in Daft Eddys and then our first overnight in Eddy.
Camping Rio Turia
Camping Rio Turia Day 1 ####
Girona Gran Fondo
After what seemed like an eternity we arrived in Girona at 17:30 and lucky old Flo found a parking space on the river 1km from the event office, after picking u...
Camping Pantapino
John and Mairead are arriving this afternoon to do some work around the house while Flo and I go camping near Alarcon
Back in Spain
Nearly here a week and in some ways it's like we never left. Suttle changes here and their, a house painted, a building completed hedges replanted. One thing ve...
The Mooney's and we're off to Spain
Afternoon Tea with May and Carole in the Stormont Hotel nice setting and the company was good, but the Tea left a lot to be desired I think the chief must have ...
Route to Spain
FRANCE
Off to Canada
We got the Bus from Cork to the Airport last night and stayed in the Premier Inn as we have an early flight in the morning.
And we're off
Another beautiful morning here in Altury warm and sunny, just finishing off the packing and almost ready to go.
Our Grand Easter Tour
We decided to have Easter here in Turis and travel to Cordoba on Easter Monday, when most of the Spanish traffic is heading home from Hols. This turned out to b...
Hectic month and piss poor Weather
This turned out to be a totally manic month, having committed ourselves to Spain on the 13th of December and a stressful visit to Cork on the 17th, with the van...
Portugal Day 8
Last day and no Flo so Marty has free rain to do his worst, fortunately Marty was tired and I was able to keep up with out too much trouble, once again it was a...
Portugal Day 7
Quercus Suber
Portugal Day 6
Took My bike back to BakeLand as the rear wheel was hitting the rear brake, not a nice ride as the road surface was bad and the traffic very heavy. Marty once a...
Portugal Day 5
We decide on a rest day as Flo was starting to flag, rightly so as she has done really well easily out lasting Rob.
Portugal Day 4
Marty tried to find a flatter route today mainly for Rob who was suffering right from the off. We went along the coast after getting lost coming out of Albufei...
Portugal Day 3
Another great day hot 33c and sunny. We all went to Silves which is a university town with a Castle, a very nice spot and another great coffee stop.
Portugal Day 2
Our first full cycle and true to form Marty threw us in at the deep end, one 13% climb (which saw Rob off and walking) and Cyclocross over a dried up river bed ...
Portugal Day 1
Very early flight from the City airport luckily Marty and Pam picked us up. The flight was uneventful and the taxi to the apartments was a great idea and worked...
Wexford / Cork
Ballycotton Harbour
Rostrevor Camping Trip
A quick trial camping trip to Rostrevor just to see what we need and if it is
Wexford & La Ruta del Murrintowneo
Arrived around 19:30 as the traffic was fairly heavy, but it was a nice bright
Slieve Russell Hotel
Slieve Russell Hotel near Cavan was our destination for a short break that we have been promising ourselves for quite some time. After taking Lotti to jail and ...
Garth's Visit
It's hard to know where to start as we packed so much in. Naturally enough our first cycle was postponed due to rain which wasn't forecast and it rained heavily...
Lough Money and Whiterock
Last time we came here it was very busy with fishermen all around the Lough shore, this time there where 3 fishermen, which for all intents and purposes we had ...
Back Home
Left the house in Turis about 06:00 and had an uneventful 2hr trip to the airport, this time avoiding the toll roads. Check in and the flight home was very smo...
Last Full Day of our Holiday
Last day of our holidays so I added a couple of loops together and ended up with a decent run once again it was very warm and sunny.
Flo Cycle and Coffee in Monserrat
Out for a spin with Flo again today. Trying to find the road from Turis to Chiva was like looking for a needle in a haystack, finaly Flo found it and we had sho...
Long Cycle let down by poor Maps and Signs
I should have been here!
Cycle and Jazz in the Amfiteatre
Flo Cycle today with coffee in Alborache, quite hilly again with longish drags and a nasty little bit around Bunyol, left too late and once again very hot, but ...
La Vuelta Albarcete
We left Altury around 10:00 and arrived in Albarcete about 13:00, we took a longer route but it was worth it as the scenery was lovely and once again the roads ...
Sedajazz
The plan to day is to drop Mairead off at Valencia Airport, and for us to go shopping in the big supper market in Bonaire.
Paddy Fields in Valencia
Got up early this morning to cycle in the cooler morning air, very over cast actually looked like it would rain. Change of direction went Turis Altury Alborache...
Torrent, Bonaire and La Font
Banking and Shopping in Torrent and Bonaire with a visit to the train station to see about going into Valencia but we are not sure if we could cope in the heat...
Searching for Bearings
After much messing around and the use of a translator we could only get an 10m Allen key and no bearings. We rang John back in Cork to see if he could get beari...
Lost in 43c Heat
Today's route didn't go as planned got lost all most as soon as we left Altury, and we ended up riding on the CV50 much more than I wanted to.
Our First day in Turis
After last nights drinking and eating I managed to sleep to 09:00, so after
Arriving in Turis
Arrived at the airport with sufficient time for an easy check in although the place was busier than we expected due probably to it being a bank holiday, any al...
Where did July Go
If the last 90 odd days dragged by then July went at the blink of an eye. Testing the new bike rack on the new car, then our annual trip to Wexford and a spin t...
The Longest 90 Days
Didn't get this month off to a good start, Flo was due back form Italy with her Mother on Saturday so I Drove down to Dublin to pick them up and then continued ...
St Patricks day Cork
This is the first St Patricks day Parade I can ever remember going to, and where better than Cork for the first one. A big surprise for me was how multi cultura...
River Quoile
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Christmas Day - Island Hill
Christmas Day Picnic at Island Hill. A real nice break in the weather today sunny and calm, a bit different from the last few days of gale force winds and heavy...
Last Day in Achill
Still windy and wet today in Achill, so we packed some things into the car and drove to the Village Bakery and Coffee Shop with Kath and Frank for our last coff...
Windy and Wet in Achill Today
Wakened early this morning to the trade mark Achill gale and squaly showers, but still quite mild. Flo and Frank are out walking Lotti heroes
Keem Valley
Tropical temperatures once again today 22c can't believe it at this time of year. A furley steep start the walk but once we reached the cliff edge the walking w...
Atlantic Drive Route 1
Near perfect conditions for our bike ride today little wind and very warm. The ride turned out to be a lot easier than I thought.
Lazy Achill
After yesterdays exertions we decided to have an easy day today, and it was a bit windy to cycle.
Lough Rea
The now annual wedding took place in Lough Rea this weekend. Being near Galway meant a long journey for Flo and myself, nearly 5 hours in total, at least the ro...
Summer Picnic - Cloughy Rocks
We went for a drive this morning with the intention of stopping at the river Quoile near Downpatrick for a small picnic, but when we got there it was very quite...
Saltee Islands
The Saltee Islands just off the wexford coast are only accessable by boat, and only by permission of the island owners, luckly the owners are keen for the publ...
Goodbye January Hello Cork
Finally January has given way to February and not soon enough as far as I am concerned, the weather has been appalling wet dull and cold and that was a good day...
Aquablue New Club
A pre Christmas trip to Cork was the order of the day, arriving late afternoon we quickly got settled and then went to the Silver Key for a meal with Flo's Moth...
Flo's week off
After Flo had to cancle her second weeks holiday when she hurt her back she booked this week off.
Cork
Brendan Kirk rang last night to see if I would go for a cycle today so we arranged to go out at 08:00 which suites me as we where going to Cork this afternoon, ...
Cork Weekend
Friday afternoon and off to Annalonge for a call of Flo's then all round the coast to Newry and Cork. The weather on the way down was crap very heavy showers, b...
Wexford
Middle of the summer indoors only no Barbecue this year.
Cork and Dromoland Castle
Travelled down to Cork on Wed 6th the journey was quite easy apart for the horrendous showers. As we were staying with John & Mairead it was straight to Car...
The Long Saturday
Arrive in Cork late last night. Flo off on her Photo Course today and I am left at home, went into Cork City this morning for a look around and had a coffee in ...
Garth Traveling Tomorrow
Spoke to Garth this after noon and he has book a Flight on Thursday to
Kittery Getting ready for Winter
Kittery
Hopewell Rocks
Chocolate Mud
Fundy Trail Parkway
Beavers
Dominion Park - Lobster on the Beach
Lobster on the Beach?
St Andrews
Kingsbrae gardens was the first stop to day A nice meal and then a walk round the gardens, some interesting sculptures to look at.
Lepreau Falls New River Beach
The Falls
Acadia National Park
First we went to Thunder Hole then a 4 mile walk in ANC. Lovely warm day blue sky, very hard walking nearly vertical in places more of a scramble. Passed an eld...
Freeport
Our Hire Car for this Trip
Bar Harbour
Helena
Flo Blogging in Belfast
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Current Holiday Itenerary
Premier Inn Dublin Airport Ref AWQR74180,Sep 09 18:00 - Sep 09 19:00
Busier March
March saw a trip to Cork to visit Flo's uncle Hugh, who had just had a pacemaker fitted. On arriving at Valentine Villas Hugh was no where to be found, after so...
Valencia Flo's 50
On the 5th October we flew to Alicante and collected a battered hire for the drive to Valencia, as one would expect the weather was fabulous. The drive was unev...
Stroke City and Donegal
Walls Of Derry
Ballaghadereen
On Tuesday 31st August we travelled to Ballaghadereen Co Roscommon and the Abbeyfield hotel for 3 nights, on the drive down the weather was fantastic, stopping ...
Wexford
Spent some of our 12th weekend in the now traditional Kilraine. This year Richard And Yuk were also staying with their little girl Hannah. Lotti and Hannah spen...
Big Month for Miles
April is traditionally a month of big mileage, or at least has been since our club started going to Mallorca for a weeks Cycling.
January
Not much happening at this time of year, so the start of the month was fairly quite. However we had a weekend away planned for the very end of the month in Co R...
Portrush Weekend
Drove up on friday afternoon traffic was light, which gave us time to admire the sunset. Fantastic as it was it was a precursor to the wild weather forecast for...