Wednesday 1st October 2025 Veloviewer fans will know that there’s far more than just hunting explorer tiles. In fact there’s so much data now that even I’m feeling a bit overwhelmed so I’m just sticking to collecting tiles and increasing my cluster (a cluster being a group of contiguous tiles) My main cluster currently extends […]
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Sunday 21st September 2025 I had thoroughly planned this ride with everything thought through beforehand until I received a text from my Sunday night Airbnb host in which he happened to mention that this weekend was the Kop Hill Climb, a large gathering of classic cars racing up Kop Hill (unsurprisingly). That was very useful […]
This chapter might be rather jumbled. It is neither a cycle tour, nor even a single trip away, but it simply records a few days in September when I decided to increase my Veloviewer Explorer tile cluster and in so doing, several events have conjoined, so I’m unsure how it will read. Tuesday 2nd September […]
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Return to Alnwick
Tuesday 5th August 2025 My plan for the next three days was to gather more Veloviewer explorer tiles in a very quiet and scenic part of the country, and ideally not battling through wind and rain in doing so. I may have let lucky with these aims since Storm Floris had done her worst by […]
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Stirling & Inveraray
Sunday 6th July 2025 I booked this short break in Scotland in early February after watching a TV programme which showcased several gardens in Scotland. Drummond Castle garden was one which really impressed Gee and I and so we arranged a trip specifically to visit it. I booked what I thought were very nice (expensive!) […]
Sunday 8th June 2025 This tour was designed to help me continue in my quest to cycle in every English county, but it started with a tile-gathering expedition around Selsey in West Sussex. I’m staying with friends both before and after the tour and since they were out when I arrived, and to loosen up […]
Thursday 1st May 2025 I want to be sufficiently fit to enjoy the mountains in the Northern part of Mallorca when I get there in a few days’ time, so today was planned not just to gather some more tiles, but also to climb some decent hills. What I didn’t expect was that today’s jaunt […]
Tuesday 8th April 2025 I’d arranged to go to the Wooler Hostel in Northumberland in late September last year, but after arranging both the accommodation and a few cycle routes for ten friends, I managed to fall off a mountain bike a couple of weeks before which meant I couldn’t go! Everyone else managed it […]
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Ruth Lyon concert in Manchester
Wednesday 26th March Ruth Lyon is the lead singer of Holy Moly & the Crackers, a band we’ve been following since 2017, and a couple of years ago she began performing as a solo artist. Tonight she’s playing in Manchester at a venue I’d never heard of along with a bassist (who also plays drums […]
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Overnight in Leeds
Wednesday 19th March 2025 In November 2024 I booked tickets to see Katherine Priddy in Leeds after seeing several reports of her excellent live shows and terrific songs, but before I’d actually listened to many of the songs. She was playing at the City Varieties Music Hall which once hosted The Good Old Days on […]