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Beer goes down well after a hard bike ride...Mosquitoes seemed to like me.

May 10th 2011
Dumped our bikes into the back of the van up to the Hill of Crosses in the morning and took lots of pictures of the crosses - definately an eye opener. The journey started really well with a gentle incline that I lead on just a bit too fast (exuberance - it was a gorgeous day!) then John got a puncture :-( The roads were pretty good but a theme emerged, little flat bit followed by a long straight ... read more

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Independent between the two World Wars, Lithuania was annexed by the USSR in 1940. On 11 March 1990, Lithuania became the first of the Soviet republics to declare its independence, but Moscow did not recognize this proclamation until September of 199... ... read more

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Alan Quinlan

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I wrote this travel blog to capture my first charity bike ride around Lithuania that occurred between the 8th and 14th of May 2011 in the vain hope that it would be my one and only major foray into charity fundraising - hmm, we are all now back for May 2012! I originally took my then new Specialized Sirrus Sport 2010 in my Ultimate Hardware travel bag and set off on a predicted 500 mile journey (actually was 468miles in the end) with two friends that I work with at Barclays, starting from Vilnius. I still continue to support the Lithuanian charity called Rugute that supports child cancer famil... full info

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