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Rumours of War
Every here and there our peaceful tour through Europe held reminders of the war. Hardly surprising, because making our way up the North Sea Coast we were tracing the line of potential invasion sites. The most sinister of these was … Continue reading
Triumph and Disaster
Look closely at this group of happy tourers, and see if you can spot the one who had an almost catastrophic start to the tour, when they flew headlong from their bike and landed face first on the tarmac? It’s … Continue reading
Assorted Bikes
Just back from my tour of France, Belgium, and The Netherlands, two weeks in which I saw more bikes than ever before. Here are a few of them: OK This was still in Dover, with our touring bikes getting to … Continue reading
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Tagged belgium, brompton, bruges, camping, cargo bike, cycling, dover, france, netherlands
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Follow the Pink Line
You would think that taking bikes onto a ferry would be straightforward…. wouldn’t you? At Dover they have even painted a helpful Pink Line for cyclists to follow. OK, so the Pink Line does have some right-angled turns and some … Continue reading
The Sea is Cqlm Tonight
Thqt spelling error qnd qll future ones qre the fqulot of this most peculiqr keyboqrd thqt I qm using in Q French cqmpsite. Don’t qsk…. enough letters qre in the right plqce to get by…. The peculiarities of Olympics meant … Continue reading
From Leek to the Peaks
Setting off from Leek made me think of Alan Paton’s famous opening to Cry the Beloved Country: There is a lovely road which runs from Ixopo into the hills. These hills are grass covered and rolling, and they are lovely … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Paton, cycling, Ixopo, leek, peak district, Warslow
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Pedal Problems
When my right pedal broke, I thought it would be a straightforward matter to replace it. Wrong! For some reason my right pedal, unlike the left, (yes I know, odd pedals) was a different size to the usual and too … Continue reading
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Tagged alsager, Archimedes, cycling, LBS, lever, pedal, spanner, supreme cycles
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Going Up
My brother is a hairy man But I am a smooth man Jacob, Esau, Monty Python. Where does all this come from? Peering backwards in time into my psyche I think I was pondering the fact that Cheshire is a … Continue reading
Cycling the Dales
I’m afraid it’s not the Yorkshire Dales this time. It’s two Staffordshire valleys, Apedale and Silverdale, once busy coalmining centres and now transformed into country parks. We once lived in the nearby village of Miles Green, when Apedale was a large … Continue reading
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Tagged apedale, chesterton, cycling, dales, knutton, mining, museum, Newcastle, silverdale
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