Hard to believe that it’s been a bit more than two years since we returned home on March 23, 2020 from an interrupted trip to Indonesia. Like many travelers, we had been hitching for some time to head back on the road. As Jessica had repeatedly invited us to London to catch-up with her new life development since we last met in the fall 2019, we knew this would be one of our first travel destination after the Covid-19 pandemic faded somewhat and that foreign travel for tourism will be allowed again.

In the early stages of our trip planning to London, we saw an opportunity to combine a bicycle touring adventure with our visit of Jessica.

An overview of our proposed cycling itinerary.

Link to the first post of this trip


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