Today, 5 years ago, I got my 2nd Compostela in the Pilgrims' Office of Santiago de Compostela. This journey was tough at times, but one of my most memorable and I loved every Km of it. I like Portugal a lot.

#EyeCycled the #caminoportugues

Today, 8 years ago, I set off from Canterbury in Kent to Rome on a bicycle. It was the start of my Via Francigena cycling pilgrimage.
It took me 29 days to cover the nearly 2,050 Km between Canterbury and Rome (Vatican) and it was, at the time, the 2nd cycling pilgrimage I had undertaken and still the longest bike trip I've ever done in my life.
A few more cycling pilgrimages followed, but none this long, so for me this remains a personal record.
I've publish, so far, 55 videos in YouTube about this journey and it's still only just over 1/2 way done. I must be honest to say I don't know if it will ever be completed as the work I have to put into editing them so they are reasonably acceptable is quite substancial and very few people watch them.
For me this journey meant discovery... I discovered and learned a lot doing it. I experimented with (real) time-lapse recordings of the journey and after coming back put 100s of hours of work editing the videos in stages. I don't know if any of it was useful to anyone but me, but I find it very nice to have a personal record of my journey, even though the "tech" I used at the time was very humble (no camera stabilization, etc).
Some people collect things and save money. Others collect memories and experiences. I'd like to believe I am the later one.

http://eyecycled.com/en_GB/2017/04/20/via-francigena-introduction-day-zero/

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My good friend Katy Cooper is cycling the Rebellion Way at the moment, which is a new 370km (230 miles) circular route in Norfolk organized by Cycling UK. She posted her first blog about this route yesterday and it makes for excellent reading for those who like to read about adventures (instead of watching them in YouTube).

https://katycamino.wordpress.com/2024/06/27/rebellion-way-day-1-norwich-to-thetford-78km/

PS. The Rebbellion in the way is thanks in part to the uprising of Celtic Britons against the Roman empire in circa AD 60–61, when the romans where the rulers of the Earth (well, the much smaller known Earth of the time).

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I wrote this blog 8 years ago... time flies.
I really like the bike I did this Red Swinley Forest trail with. I mentioned it in the loger video, stating I was going to miss it when if I had to sell it... I actually ended up giving it away for free, unfortunatelly to a person who wasn't a cyclist and perhaps did not enjoy it so much as someone who is (my girlfriend at the time). Done my best though.
The post includes the long 59 min video of the red trail with voice commentary only and a shorter 10 min video of the trail at 6x the normal video speed with music backgorund only.
Trails have changed slightly over the years but the video still will give you a good idea about how the trail is.

http://eyecycled.com/en_GB/2016/07/09/eyecycled-swinley-forest-red-mountain-bike-trail/

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