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!"
>From now on we'll just give a few brief facts & anyone wanting more
can either follow a link (that we will provide) where the full version
can either be read or downloaded.
Anyone having problems let us know and we'll email it to you
directly.
A Slovenian update will be sent out in a few days.
THE STORY SO FAR
We set off from Châtellerault, France 9 months ago.
COUNTRIES COMPLETED: 7
France (65), At Sea (2), Morocco (23), Spain (8), Algeria (27), Tunisia
(24), At Sea (1), Sicily (30), Italy (83), Slovenia (24).
We're now in Split, Croatia where we'll be until Tuesday. Route
plan at the moment is Sarajevo, Mostar (Bosnia), Dubrovnik (Croatia).
We may take in a couple of the islands such as Hvar or Korcula (the
birthplace of Marco Polo - hands up who knew he was a Croatian -
yes we know... Croatia didn't exist then!). On to Montenegro,
Albania, Macedonia, Bulgaria and Turkey. Then...umm well we're open
to suggestions!
Oh yes - we should mention we are doing a world tour! Seems that some
of our friends haven't quite clicked on that!
DISTANCE
We think we've done about 7,900km (difficult to tell - Richard's
speedometer is broken & mine periodically set themselves back to zero.
My parents will be the first to tell you I can't add up)
FRENCH NEWS!
Richard has also been doing a French newsletter. If you're not on the
French mailing list (and you speak or at least read French!) you can
join by sending a blank email to
velomad-fr-subscribe@googlegroups.com
or follow this link
http://groups.google.co.uk/group/Velomad-fr/boxsubscribe
There's also a French page on the website now.
BEST SO FAR
Finally - we found a clean country! Slovenia wins hands down - a
cyclist's paradise.
WORST SO FAR
Italy and Morocco are competing for the prize of the dirtiest but
Croatia looks like it may well be in the running. But the worst thing
is we forgot to celebrate Peace One Day - 21st September. Hope we
were the only ones.
Stani & Richard
www.velomad.com
Email: i...@velomad.com
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