Bucket List

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Cycle around Europe, following the sun. Start in Portugal or Italy and head up to northern Europe before heading south again. Stop along the way to take in the sights and cultures.

Quite modest and very achievable indeed. I like the sound of the sun, just imagining it. Portugal and Italy are fantastic places ,especially if you like your food!

Yep. My main inhibitors are the fact that I'm still working and that my wife does not cycle. She will be my support team, possibly even in a camper van. Move on 50 miles and I meet her there. Every 3-4 days we stop and enjoy the surrounds for 48 hours.

I've enjoyed rural Portugal and Italy before and would gladly do it again, but I'm keen to explore Croatia, Greec and south-west Europe. I've toyed with the idea of doing it two successive spring/summers.

Sounds really good , having been all over most of Europe over the years including camping and some cycling you are in for a treat. I have friends who cycle seriously, some in there 60’s and 70’s who cycle the Italian Dolomites and around the French ski resorts in Summer, places like Morzine near the Swiss border. Doing it leisurely and support is the key they tell me. Hope you achieve safely and with excellent after cycling fine dining experience!

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Rich Tea Wellin:- Portugal is a no no for me, as I think at 76 & already had cardiac arrest, I wont be able to get insured. It would be unreasonable of me to go to Portugal & expire- too much red tape for my niece & nephew to handle. Now actually, I am still in contact with the lady I used to go to Chelsea with in the 1960's & 70's. In her day she was quite a looker. Possibly due for a meet up in the Spring. But heart problems would interfere with the more interesting possibilities there!

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Not on my Bucket List!

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