I’m sitting in my back garden drinking tea while listening to the chickens cluck and scratch about. This first week […]


I’m sitting in my back garden drinking tea while listening to the chickens cluck and scratch about. This first week […]

We cycled out of Patras as the fading rays of a lost summer sloshed up against the northern shores of […]

Under a piercingly bright sun, the Minoan Lines Ferry, from Bari Italy, takes us across the calm translucent deep blue […]
The old town of Rovinj, in modern-day Croatia, is dominated by the towering baroque church of St Euphemia built in […]

‘See Venice and Die’ they say; The meaning being that after such a peak experience, there is nothing left to […]

The Elbe flows quickly through the historic city of Muhlberg. We follow slowly hugging the cycle path, sheltered by the […]

Warm smoked herrings in a dill and butter sauce with pickled fennel and sour lingonberries. It was by sheer coincidence […]

We put aside the unpleasantness of having our bicycles stolen in Stockholm, grateful to miraculously recover Therese’s bicycle out front […]

Environment shapes culture. Almost 80% of Finland is forested, and there is an outdoor culture here: cycling, hiking, swimming, skiing, […]