Luck’s a fortune, a volcanic eruption in Bali Indonesia saw us stranded on the tarmac in Melbourne our flight was […]
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Risk and Return
Back from a few months away touring on my bicycle, I was invited to a friend’s party where I was […]
Time is our Favourite Illusion
As a child time moved slowly like a dinosaur, heavy with anticipation and promise. The cosmic order hadn’t yet coalesced. […]
Bicycle Names, Lucky Charms, Mascots & Silly Superstitions
Cyclists are creatures of habit, as such it’s become usual for me to keep my ‘inside bikes’ located in different […]
Plan B: Boxed up in Bordeaux
The sleepy seaside village of Ares has been beautiful. How quickly we become creatures of habit. Over the week here, […]
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 […]
Cycle Touring Australia and Beyond 