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Re: Scrub Tibet - Hello Dracula
Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2025 7:37 pm
by weeksy
Cousin Jack wrote: Tue Jul 15, 2025 7:18 pm
Obviously every one else is a bit younger/tech savy than me. I am from the dinosaur generation.
Understand that.
If you click attachments below your post when replying, try adding them there.
I'll happily increase the file size if needed for the trip duration but it's set at 5mb per pic currently.
Re: Scrub Tibet - Hello Dracula
Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2025 7:52 pm
by Count Steer
Re: Scrub Tibet - Hello Dracula
Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2025 8:00 pm
by Count Steer
Re: Scrub Tibet - Hello Dracula
Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2025 8:06 pm
by Count Steer
Re: Scrub Tibet - Hello Dracula
Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2025 8:13 pm
by KungFooBob
Looks shit!
Only joshing. I got the impression that early on you weren't enjoying it much, but you seem much happier now?
Does the route involve dipping your toes in the Black Sea at all?
Re: Scrub Tibet - Hello Dracula
Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2025 10:22 pm
by Dodgy69
Cracking pic's...well worth the wait, with a little help from your friends.
Re: Scrub Tibet - Hello Dracula
Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2025 1:04 pm
by Cousin Jack
Dodgy69 wrote: Tue Jul 15, 2025 10:22 pm
Cracking pic's...well worth the wait, with a little help from your friends.
Correction, quite a lot of help!
Re: Scrub Tibet - Hello Dracula
Posted: Sat Jul 19, 2025 8:41 pm
by Cousin Jack
More pics added, including a few that are totally irrelevant. When I work out how'I will delete them.
Had a day off today in Budapest playing at tourist. As usual I had a misshap, a day without CJ having a bit of an issue wouldn't be the same. Phone died. Dead! Battery totally flat. And I couldn't order an Uber to get me back to the hotel a few miles out of the city, nor could I remember the name of the hotel. And of course I couldn't ring the guide for help.
Long story short, big posh hotel (Hilton), walk in, explain my problem to the priority service desk and they charged my phone for me. Problem solved, thank you Hilton.
Re: Scrub Tibet - Hello Dracula
Posted: Sat Jul 19, 2025 8:50 pm
by KungFooBob
Cousin Jack wrote: Sat Jul 19, 2025 8:41 pm
More pics added, including a few that are totally irrelevant. When I work out how'I will delete them.
Had a day off today in Budapest playing at tourist. As usual I had a misshap, a day without CJ having a bit of an issue wouldn't be the same. Phone died. Dead! Battery totally flat. And I couldn't order an Uber to get me back to the hotel a few miles out of the city, nor could I remember the name of the hotel. And of course I couldn't ring the guide for help.
Long story short, big posh hotel (Hilton), walk in, explain my problem to the priority service desk and they charged my phone for me. Problem solved, thank you Hilton.
Budapest is aces. Did you see the shoes memorial on the bank of the Danube, got some grit in my eye at that one?
Re: Scrub Tibet - Hello Dracula
Posted: Sat Jul 19, 2025 9:04 pm
by Dodgy69
Those battery bank things can be handy when out and about with phone.
Re: Scrub Tibet - Hello Dracula
Posted: Sat Jul 19, 2025 9:04 pm
by Count Steer
Can't access the pix now...it asks for a sign-in.
Re: Scrub Tibet - Hello Dracula
Posted: Sat Jul 19, 2025 9:05 pm
by Cousin Jack
KungFooBob wrote: Sat Jul 19, 2025 8:50 pm
Cousin Jack wrote: Sat Jul 19, 2025 8:41 pm
More pics added, including a few that are totally irrelevant. When I work out how'I will delete them.
Had a day off today in Budapest playing at tourist. As usual I had a misshap, a day without CJ having a bit of an issue wouldn't be the same. Phone died. Dead! Battery totally flat. And I couldn't order an Uber to get me back to the hotel a few miles out of the city, nor could I remember the name of the hotel. And of course I couldn't ring the guide for help.
Long story short, big posh hotel (Hilton), walk in, explain my problem to the priority service desk and they charged my phone for me. Problem solved, thank you Hilton.
Budapest is aces. Did you see the shoes memorial on the bank of the Danube, got some grit in my eye at that one?
No, I missed that one. I did a big museum and learned a whole raft of history that UK education managed to ignore. And bought an electric plug adaptor that I left at the last hotel, this causing the phone issue.
Re: Scrub Tibet - Hello Dracula
Posted: Sat Jul 19, 2025 9:06 pm
by KungFooBob
Get your self out that hotel and go have a drink in Szimpla Kert!
Re: Scrub Tibet - Hello Dracula
Posted: Sat Jul 19, 2025 9:07 pm
by Cousin Jack
Dodgy69 wrote: Sat Jul 19, 2025 9:04 pm
Those battery bank things can be handy when out and about with phone.
Yes, got me a partial charge in the morning but wouldn't go above 65%. Phone and power pack now fully charged
Re: Scrub Tibet - Hello Dracula
Posted: Sat Jul 19, 2025 9:08 pm
by Cousin Jack
Long day tomorrow, 400 kms, so off for a kip.
Re: Scrub Tibet - Hello Dracula
Posted: Wed Jul 23, 2025 5:34 pm
by Cousin Jack
Still alive but sat nav is fubar'd. Some bloody long days and I am knackered.
Tomorrow is 400+ kms with no motorways, and Friday is 500+ kms. Then 300 miles on Sat back to the Duchy.
I will address the pics issue when I get home.
Re: Scrub Tibet - Hello Dracula
Posted: Wed Jul 23, 2025 5:48 pm
by weeksy
I'm not sure this sounds like a lot of actual fun/enjoyment?
Re: Scrub Tibet - Hello Dracula
Posted: Wed Jul 23, 2025 7:51 pm
by MyLittleStudPony
When I went (FWIW) many years ago, I remember saying to the lads: "The highs will be very high and the lows very low". And so it was.
Re: Scrub Tibet - Hello Dracula
Posted: Wed Jul 23, 2025 9:01 pm
by Cousin Jack
The highs have been stratospheric, but I think it is time I accepted that, at 79, I am too decrepit to do 6+ riding hour days back to back for 3 weeks.
I have enjoyed (most of) the riding, I have enjoyed the company and piss-taking, but with 3 long days to go I wish I could just be teleported home.
By next year I will remember the good bits and will have forgotten how knackered I felt.
Re: Scrub Tibet - Hello Dracula
Posted: Wed Jul 23, 2025 9:05 pm
by Dodgy69
Long days them, 200 miles is plenty with all the stops and fannying about. Good luck.
