Bathroom update
Today the bricklayers arrived and removed to 2 old windows want to be replaced want to be bricked up they then took all the old plaster off the walls and bricked up the window
Upstairs bathroom update
The outer shell is now built and just needs the window And it looks better than I was expecting 😀
Defender axle oil change
100,000 miles is the recommended interval which equates to 160,000 km. As I’m not sure that it was done when I bought the Defender with 78,000km I have decided to do it now (~100,000 km)
Back in Staffordshire
Brought my father back to the UK after a week spent with us in Belgium. We went back up to Staffordshire in the midlands to visit my elder brother and his family before returning to Eastbourne The driving was painfully slow going up to James and coming back down to Eastbourne. Just too much traffic…
Washington DC on foot
18.42km. 98m ascent. 4h14 walk time DC is full of things to see and they are fairly well spaced out….. Our first job was to find 2 bike boxes to pack our bikes for the home journey. These we found at The Daily Rider who kindly gave us 2 with the original inside packaging material.…
Fredericksburg-Washington DC
107.14km. 993m ascent. 5h25 ride time Not a great ride. Komoot basically routes up the old highway which is not to be recommended. I find Komoot good in Europe but less so here in the USA The best part of the route was actually here in DC where the city is super bike friendly and…
Richmond – Fredericksburg
115.77km. 777m ascent. 5h25 ride time The penultimate day of our epic ride in the USA. Very hot and humid but a beautiful ride with, luckily, plenty of shade, thought the beautiful Virginia countryside. It was brutally hot again and this drained our energy but we made good headway and arrived at our motel around…
Richmond guided city tour by bike
38.74km. 294m ascent. 2h33 ride time Patrice offered to give us a guided cycle tour of Richmond, something Phini usually does but he had just undergone surgery and was not allowed to ride! We had a great ride around the sights of Richmond and Richmond is a city where I could live! They have the…
Williamsburg – Richmond
101.42km. 543m ascent. 4h42 ride time Our journey draws to an end as we make our way up to Washington DC to catch our flight back to Belgium. We have a whole day in Richmond, mainly because we were way too early in Yorktown and we have time to spare. Changing our ticket is prohibitively…
Williamsburg on foot
13.44km. 68m ascent. 3h10 walking time No ride today but a foot tour of the old colonial town, probably the world’s largest living museum! Williamsburg is beautiful and a lot of the houses are original. All commerce is kept out of the town so you have to go to the edge to get a coffee…