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  • Why I ride

    A cool, crisp autumn morning past Norton Summit.

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  • The Japanese Tourist

    Japanese tourists. Having travelled around the world these past two years, I feel the desire to document my perceptions on the Japanese as a tourist animal. They are welcome to respond in kind. I admit that included in this rambling assumption may well be Korean travellers. Firstly their politeness is legendary, unfortunately to the point

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  • Prague

    Plans well advanced for a month in europe – September. Fly to Frankfurt then train to Dresden and cycle ! Dresden – Prague – Salzburg – Vienna. The Mozart trail…

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  • Jatz RIP

    He had a good life… no a GREAT life.

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  • Untitled by graham3693 at Garmin Connect – Details.   No idea why this was HARD! Quads cramp at 60km… I needed a rest and coffee! Perhaps the colder ambient temperature reduced peripheral circualtion and so I did not clear LACTATE as efficiently?  Sigh

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  • Untitled by graham3693 at Garmin Connect – Details.

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  • TDU Ride 2013 by graham3693 at Garmin Connect – Details.

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  • Desert Island OPERA

    My Desert Island Opera List Let me state at the beginning, that I will try to avoid using the word “sublime” more than I should. It is impossible to describe in words one’s reaction and emotions to music – invariably classical . There is an intense, incredible shiver of ecstasy that envelopes the body and

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  • Amongst the beautifully maintained and restored churches, offices, houses and modern museums in Oreo Preto we stumbled across the restored “opera house and theatre”. This is not Sydney! It was rather a delightful “miniature” of the European opera houses but built in entirely in timber, no bricks, mortar or stone work, let alone marble. It

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  • Before I briefly combine the blog of these two delightful villages, I shall document that eucalyptus trees were introduced into Brazil from Australia in 1910. They are now ubiquitous. I was fascinated to read that Brazil now has more eucalyptus trees under plantation than any other country, including Australia. They have so spread far and

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