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Summer Cycle With a Deadline to Reach Istanbul
I’ve had very little pressure to be anywhere by a certain date on this cycle trip, however one date I had to keep was meeting a bunch of...
Lauren O'Bryan
Jul 7, 20203 min read
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Transfăgărășan: Romanian Word for ‘Pain’
Someone had mentioned to me the Transfăgărășan highway, a road spruiked by Top Gear as one of the world’s greatest driving roads, and as...
Lauren O'Bryan
Jun 17, 20204 min read
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A Warm Romanian Welcome
I exited the Schengen zone into Romania with 2 days to spare. Never much of a rule breaker, I wasn’t entirely sure I’d understood the ‘90...
Lauren O'Bryan
Jun 9, 20205 min read
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A Whistle Stop in Slovakia and Hungary
My time in the Schengen Zone was grinding down to the deadline. I would have to skip through Slovakia and Hungary faster than I’d have...
Lauren O'Bryan
Jun 7, 20204 min read
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The Mountains Loom in Southern Poland
I arrived in Wroclaw to the very warm welcome of warmshowers hosts Greg and Jadzia. I promptly learnt that I cannot pronounce either...
Lauren O'Bryan
May 28, 20205 min read
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Cycling Into Poland: Where Things Start to Get Interesting
I spent almost two weeks in Berlin waiting on a pair of glasses to be sent to me. I socialised and did the usual sightseeing around...
Lauren O'Bryan
May 22, 20205 min read
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Is this still Germany?
After a bit of time off the bike visiting a friend in Hamburg I decided to carry on towards Berlin. My friend suggested that instead of...
Lauren O'Bryan
May 18, 20202 min read
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The Flatlands (Not the Badlands, sorry)
I feel like the best description for the Netherlands is ‘the flatlands’, for obvious reasons. In terms of the trip so far this area was...
Lauren O'Bryan
May 7, 20203 min read
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Unbelievable hosts and Dutch style camping
Wild camping or Free camping is illegal in many countries in Europe particularly western Europe. However I also made use of platforms...
Lauren O'Bryan
Apr 30, 20204 min read
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Cycling through World War 1 History: A Detour
I met my first bunch of cycle tourers on the ferry over to France. All of them had there holiday set, route planned and bed and...
Lauren O'Bryan
Apr 21, 20203 min read
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My doorstep mile
I’m typically super organised, but being organised didn’t ease my nerves when it came to actually getting on the bike and leaving....
Lauren O'Bryan
Apr 13, 20203 min read
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