Big day today!

Manuscript coauthor comments done and sent to the one outstanding coauthor ✅️

Flights booked to return home ✅️

Bike packed and started the long route to Norway ✅️

🚈🚄🚈⛴️ over the next 44 hrs, and then the cycling begins. For now the bike feels heavy as shit, and still food to add! Feeling strong enough for extravagances like a bottle of South African bought with one of my touring pals in Cape Town last year.

#BikesBikesBikes #Norway #cycleTour #Fahhrad

Suddenly I find myself on the downhill slope to going home, with about 10 weeks left in Germany!

The farewell Europe tour mainly consists of going cycle touring in Norway as a bucketlist item - we're hoping to do the Mjølkevegen, but Norway actually had an average winter this year, and there are a couple of passes that still need to open. I'm keeping an eye on the Sentinel imagery and the long-term forecast and thinking warm thoughts... the good news is there are plenty of alternatives and it all looks spectacular.

The route, for those interested: https://cyclenorway.com/en/routes/mjolkevegen_route/mjolkevegen/

#BikesBikesBikes #CycleTour #SatelliteImagery #Mjolkevegen #Norge

Nothing like a cycle tour as an excuse to pay some attention to the bike.

Washed, everything tightened, tyres installed. So ready for a few days tootling up the Mosel.

This is my third set of g-ones, such a solid everyday tyre. Very rarely get punctures, nice profile for not too chunky gravel, and they go on easy.

#Easter #cycleTour #bikesBikesBikes #PuttingTheRadInFahrrad #Mosel