Cycling Over the Arctic Circle!
Those of us who own a bicycle know the joys of that economical if leg-weary means of travel. In a recent "Listener" you may have read about Mr. and Mrs. Roy Hill’s adventures while cycling round Europe on a bicycle built for two, and now here is a report of two girls who cycled into the Arctic Circle. One of this venturesome pair, Barbara Cotton, says: "To bicycle over two thousand miles, on a journey of five thousand miles, sounds a formidable holiday, but it’s really not beyond an average cyclist. I did it with a friend last summer, crossing Denmark and Sweden to Finland, and up through Lapland to the Arctic Ocean. . . . The roads in Finland are rather bad for cycling-anyhow, the ones
.we struck. The great Arctic Highway sounded more promising, but it turned out to be the very grand name for a glorified cart-track! But it’s the only road in the world to the Arctic Ocean. Often it was easier to get off and walk, and we used to envy the people there who jogged along comfortably on their huge cushion-tyred cycles. Our machines looked
like toys compared with them; though I must say they stood up to the strain well, even when we had to take them to pieces and wash the thick dust of the highway off in a lake-and then, of course, found we had forgotten how to put them together again! We didn’t have a single puncture. ... At last we crossed the Arctic Circle. It was a blazingly hot morning, which made the notice announcing ‘ Arctic Circle’ seem very unreal."
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 1, Issue 5, 28 July 1939, Page 10
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272Cycling Over the Arctic Circle! New Zealand Listener, Volume 1, Issue 5, 28 July 1939, Page 10
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