The sound is deafening. There are ten of us in the tiny bar, and we’re all yelling at the top of our lungs in the name of “Karaoke”, the national pastime the Japanese use to let their hair down. The bar owner has already had to go next door and apologise to his neighbours for the racket. “HERE WE ARE NOW, ENTERTAIN US”, sing Nirvana, accompanied by a group of very tired but happy Skeddaddlers, celebrating their last night of a fantastic trip.
Scroll back 2 and half weeks and I’m excitedly sat on the plane somewhere above Russia with an air of naivety and expectation, on the way to Osaka.

Check-out the Skedaddle staff & biking guides on holiday during the 2009 Skedaddle Guides weekend in the UK’s Lake District. As usual it was an international affair, with around 40 people arriving from Spain, Sardinia, Norway, Newcastle, Rotherham (most exotic), London, Bristol and everywhere in-between. We even had Paul arriving like the proverbial Paddington Bear from Peru armed with a superb some superb photos and videos of our mountain bike holidays in Peru. 

We’re please say that we all passed our First Aid qualification and so are now all ready to bandage you up in the ‘unlikely’ occurance of someone falling off their bike, whilst on holiday.

We’ve also been kept up to date with all things bike wise by Dave of TSW Cycles / Giant Bikes and as all now familar with Spanish Tapas (Cumbrian Style) after a night in Costas Tapas Bar……a little bit of Spain in Penrith and high kitsch in the extreme!!

 Check out the below photos and see if you can see anyone you recognise?

Skedaddle Guides make it out on the hills around Ulswater

Dave finds it amusing that Straws calls the bike on the stand a ‘Racer’.

Five hours on and hundreds of kicks up the ass, Simone still hasn’t realised !!

Sadly, David would never play the piano again!

Skedaddle Sardinia in the Snow

What’s wrong with you!! It’s only a bit of ice!!
 

Practicing skills in office tidying , ring bindering..

…and Mountain Biking!

As you can see , the weather in the lake district can be glorious even in winter months, why not book up a weekend of great scenery and biking in the spring or summer?
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Thought I would drop you a mail to say the cycling trip to Chile and Argentina i’ve justed been on was really great. Steve was a fantastic guide-really professional and hardworking and good fun. Luciano the driver was delightful, it was really well organised.

It’s the third Skedaddle holiday I have been on and by far the best- i would definatley recommend it to my friends, i have no suggestions to improve it.”

Best Wishes

Amanda S., Southampton, UK

For those of you looking to head out to this part of South America to do some biking then we’ve now limited places on the February 21st departure and later in the year in October, November and Christmas / New Year.

This superb desert biking adventure focuses on the deep south of Morocco, a land of big skies and stark mountain ranges where mud-brick kasbahs appear to rise up out of the desert, sitting in tranquil palm oases and framed by dramatic backdrops of snowcapped mountains. We ride along Morocco’s dirt roads, taking us from Marrakech to the Tichka Pass, the highest in the High Atlas, and then southward, descending along the Draa Valley to the fringes of the Sahara Desert.