The Crown Hotel
Travel Blogs from Biggleswade
Almost on our way!
We are 7 sleeps away from our Australian travels and are pretty much set to go! Yesterday we picked up our money, it feels new and a little like Monopoly money ;-) Matt enjoyed rolling in it! We also received our final e-ticket confirmation from Malaysia Airlines :-) and we have all paperwork printed and ready to go! This time next week we will behalf way to Sydney, where it is currently 21 degrees at ...
Departure Day
... my family, the fact that I am not there to support, but I have to trust that it is all meant to be so. As I write this it is already the 6th December so .. here's to Hilda and Lotte with love. had an OK night on the plane despite the obese coughing man. grateful for Elite class and more room. Just had breakfast of ginger chicken noodles and have about an hour till landing. Working out how to use this so be ...
The final stats
So here we are back in Blighty with any lost weight well and truly back on after spending the last month with family and friends. As promised we are detailing the statistics of our trip so here goes:
Total Cycle days: 43 days
Fastest cycle speed: 39 mph
Most miles in one day on cycle: 96 (154km)
Least miles in one day on cycle: 14 (25km)
Distance travelled by cycle: 2350 miles (3782km)
Distance travelled by boat: 260 miles (420km)
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A variety of accommodation - differing views
... is rated a 4 star. It's a reasonable hotel a little way out of town, near a residential area with a supermarket, but there is nothing else nearby and the traffic into the city in rush hour isn't fun, so I only stayed there once. They tried to charge 2 of us for 4 bottles of wine at dinner, the following morning - I gently suggested that if we had drunk that much between the two of us we would perhaps ...
Here are my Highlights...
... with a 7m waterfall and swimming over some rapids