Tag: Old Friends
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A Gruesome Climb: Maungatapu Saddle
So, is it time for e-bikes? Or maybe a supported tour, where someone carries our stuff from nice hotel to nice hotel, with a cold beer, soft bed and hot dinner waiting? Does AARP run bike tours? Or maybe hiring someone to drive a sag wagon to the top? Am I too old for this…
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30 years ago, in Nitra – back in time
In September 1992, exactly 30 years ago , a young woman named Miss Christine Minett arrived at the dark bus station in Nitra, Czechoslovakia. She spoke no Slovak. There was a single pay phone under a dim light, with which she hopefully dialed the number scrawled on a piece of paper. She got a person…