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velo...@gmail.com (velomad@gmail.com) — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 00:07:22 UT

Hello Everyone

I'm afraid that you received a message supposedly from us this morning
(about 7 hours ago) with the subject line:

[Greetings from the Velomads] Tue, 7 Jul 2009 +8736 82% 0FF.

This message is NOT from us and we're guessing that if you follow the
link you'll be taken to a website that will attempt to install a virus

Tue, 7 Jul 2009 +8736 82% 0FF.

velo...@gmail.com — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 18:17:54 UT

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Velomads Belated 2008 Update - China

cyclingpix...@velomad.com (The Velomads) — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 03:51:28 UT

Hello Everyone

This is a long overdue update that we wrote a long while ago but figured so
old news might be better than none at all and was actually written for a
cycling club but we hope you’ll enjoy it too.

From Korea we took the boat to Shimonoseki (wonderful city – very sorry we
only spent 1 day there – great funky bikes/bikeshops too!) in south Japan

Leaving Mongolia

velo...@gmail.com (Velomad) — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 10:42:48 UT

Greeting’s from China!

Yes – the Velomads finally made it out of Mongolia – after only what?…. 8
months! We’re currently (31st May 2007) ensconced very comfortably thanks to
the Peking to Paris 2007 Rally teams in Ereen / Erenhot (seems like there
are 2 different names for every city in China according which map you look

Slovenia photos

velo...@gmail.com (Velomad) — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 01:08:54 UT

SLOVENIAN PHOTOS
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Thanks everyone who responded to out Slovenia newsletter - as so many of you
asked to see photos we've attached a few (low resolution for those who are
still on dial up) - though they've been on our website for about a year!

FAME AT LAST!
Well not exactly but we were interviewed by Passport Magazine whilst we were

Paradise Regained - Slovenia 2005

velo...@gmail.com (velomad@gmail.com) — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 11:09:01 UT

Here's the newsletter we promised back in August 2005!
______________________________ ______________________________ ____
Can you believe we spent 2 whole months in Italy? No - we can't
either.
But we didn't spend enough time in Slovenia that's for sure. Looking at
the map it was difficult to imagine we'd be spending more than a week

The Précis Edition!

cyclingpix...@velomad.com (Velomad) — Sun, 25 Sep 2005 09:42:27 UT

For those of you who have made cutting remarks about the length of our
newsletters we are now doing the "précis" edition! We've been
getting mixed responses - some people are delighted at receiving our
newsletters - others complain that they're too long, yet others
demand further details.
Soooo here it is! "The Précis Edition!"

Newsletter 3. Two Saints in Italy

cyclingpix...@velomad.com (Velomad) — Sat, 30 Jul 2005 08:28:07 UT

So much for us whizzing through Italy as we originally planned. We got
stuck. Not stuck in one place for any reason - just ....we like it
too much and have started to zigzag.
To be honest we didn't love the South of Italy. Our route was
basically along the coastline from Villa San Giovanni in Reggio de

Greetings from Setif

i...@velomad.com (Velomad) — Tue, 26 Apr 2005 17:50:35 UT

Hello everyone
Just in case you thought we had vanished we are still alive and
pedalling - just having a nightmare trying to find internet access
points that acually work. We haven't updated our website since March so
don't worry if you have been trying to find out what had happened to
us!
We are currently in Setif - this morning we visited Djemila - a roman

Greetings from Spain

i...@velomad.com (Velomad) — Mon, 04 Apr 2005 12:12:12 UT

Hi Everyone
Just a quick message to let you know we've left Morocco and are
currently in Spain - tomorrow we catch a boat to Algeria. The borders
are closed between Morocco and Algeria so we had to take the long route
round - boat to Spain and another to Algeria!
Several people said they never got the original invite to our velomad

Newsletter 1: Prologue. Chatellerault to Montpellier 5th February 2005

i...@velomad.com (Velomad) — Mon, 28 Feb 2005 14:44:32 UT

As many of you know we are back on the road. For those of you who
don't know we set off a few weeks ago from Châtellerault in the
pouring rain - and we mean seriously pouring! We left Richard's
parents place and headed into the centre of Châtellerault for a quick
photo - the local rag wanted to do an article on us and asked to take

Argentina Tue, 28 Sep 1999

i...@velomad.com (Velomad) — Sun, 27 Feb 2005 08:31:42 UT

Lots of people told us that after Ecuador, Bolivia & Peru we would find
Argentina boring but it's not true. True the countryside is not as
consistently spectacular (Mancchu Picchu - you know how when you go to
see a film that everyone has raved about & you are always disappointed?
MP takes your breath away no matter how many times you've heard it's

Newsletter: Chile

i...@velomad.com (Velomad) — Sun, 27 Feb 2005 08:28:57 UT

Many of you know we have now finished our voyage and are now home.
However I wrote this when we were in Ushuaia so we might as well send
it!
Here's a bit of what happened after our last email (over 6 months
ago!!!)
Despite our first impressions of Chile with its super highway we were
soon to be reminded that we were in South America. San Pedro de

Newsletter: Bolivia Part II Tue, 26 Oct 1999

i...@velomad.com (Velomad) — Sun, 27 Feb 2005 08:20:02 UT

Yes, we're back on-line!
In Argentina now, heading for Chile. We left you in Potasí, Bolivia,
distraught that the city, despite being big by Bolivian standards (120
000) and high (altitude 4070m), had no cable TV, so we never got to see
the end of the Tour de France. (Hold on - Richard's having a mini

Yes we noticed Equator

i...@velomad.com (Velomad) — Sun, 27 Feb 2005 08:13:32 UT

Sorry - ran a spell check before posting the newsletters on Ecuador and
didn't realise that Ecuador was changed to Equator!