Despite the threatening clouds, there was just enough blue sky to make a sailor’s trousers. Here in the West Midlands, […]
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Cycle Touring Australia and Beyond
I love bicycle touring and have ridden from Melbourne to Darwin, Melbourne to Adelaide, Melbourne to Cooktown, Pert to Melbourne and toured around Victoria and Tasmania. In 2015 I rode around the world! In 2017 6000kms half way around Australia then another 4000kms Helsinki to Athens via Scandinavia. Where to next?Great Tits in Osgathorpe
After an energetic ramble through the local forest, I was relaxing in the comfy chair sipping homemade elderflower champagne enjoying […]
Cambridge, Canals and Warmshowers
In clearing weather Cambridge City was easy to cycle into courtesy of a designated bicycle path. Swarms of students, crowds […]
Summertime
Wafer-thin Vladimir approached me slowly with a heavy snub-nosed hammer; “You could use this to knock in the pegs”. Trailing […]
Back in the Netherlands,
Antwerp was in such a furious hurray: It was as if they couldn’t decide what to build and what to […]
Blue Skies in Bruges
In Passchendaele, the dead sleep well beneath manicured lawns. The unknown soldiers receive dozens of daily visitors, like Peter Pan […]
In Flanders Fields
Our tour of Flanders (Belgium) continued up and over the wall into Geraardsbergen where we were rewarded with a Mattenstaart. […]
Back Roads to Belgium and Beyond
From Budapest, we took a local train from Keleti station to Gyor close to the Hungarian border where we were […]
Out There!
Cycle touring is rarely a linear pursuit. Getting There is half the fun and often involves taking a convoluted route: […]
Budapest
The House of Terror Museum is located at 60 Andrassy Street Budapest in an unobtrusive renaissance-style building that was the […]
Cycle Touring Australia and Beyond 