Sandy is finally off on his 3500 km cycle ride from Roscoff in northern France, all the way to Gibralter. Well, that's the theory anyway.

This is to mark his retirement from the Outdoor Pursuit lifestyle he has been leading since leaving the Royal Navy as a Commissioned Officer. It's a chill trip, and as such there is no assured daily plan, and no definite number of miles per day (kilometers actually as he is in Europe).

So a third era awaits, and this is the celebration of the start of it. This site is a record of his progress, containing his diary (from emails received), a map of progress and pictures when we can get them. Unfortunately Sandy's mobile doesn't take photos (don't ask), so these will come on-line in batches when we receive a CD by snail mail from time to time.

Sandy can also see this website when he gets to Internet Cafés, so if you have a message for him, you can email me here and I will put it up on the site for you. Sorry, no "blog" or "open forum" because certain humans delight in putting obnoxious material on them, and I don't have to time to monitor it.

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