ONWARD AND UPWARD
Today, along with remembering Orator and Diatom, we think of Lidice and the victims of a cruel regime. We can think too how a brighter...
MAINLY MUNSTER
Some might say that thirty-seven miles is barely cycle touring others would find it plenty. This was a deliberately short day in the...
CROSSING THE LINE
An eighty-one mile day following the ubiquitous branches of the Rhine, their overflow an tributaries, across an open border has taken us...
HOT AND LONG: EUROPORT TO ARNHEM
What is there to say about cycling in the Netherlands? It is all true, infrastructure, law, landscape and attitude all encourage cycling....
SHOULD HAVE BEEN FLAT
“Have you room for two more?” A group of cyclists had just boarded the Hull to Rotterdam ferry and were stowing their bikes next to ours....
PEAK CROSSING
A breeze along the Trent and Mersey canal in the early morning; a roll through the undulating Staffordshire Moorlands in the late...
CONTRAST
Celebrating the hope, the joy that people were determined to bring by the rebuilding of the village of Lidice - both physically and as a...
PACK TIME
Well, less than a week to go and things suddenly come together. Bike serviced, gear sorted out, maps stacked in order and tool kit ready...
LOOKING BENEATH THE SURFACE
On Saturday afternoon, rain pouring down and family at the cinema, a mail arrived in my inbox telling me that Harry Davies had mentioned...
TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY, AT LAST
Tapping away at his wireless and Morse Code equipment during the Second World War must have seemed to him like the height of technology...
