introduction to my trip

Kia Ora Whanau and friends,

"agge oe eige nie kietelt dan lachte nooit" is a saying from my old hometown of Breda in the Netherlands and it means" if you don't tickle yourself you 'll never laugh" and torturing myself on a bike from North Cape in Norway to Rome, Italy is that tickle for me.

A couple of years ago I thought it would be a great fiftieth birthday present to myself to do a cycling tour with a bit of a bite, luckily my lovely and generous wife agreed and on Thursday the 1st of July I am off on a plane to the North Cape.
This is not a midlife crisis project although my failure to see it that way might in it self be an indication of just that !
After some erratic training in the last few months I have no idea what sort of distances I can cope with but a 100km a day would be enough to get me at the airport in Rome on the 12th of September.
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