Sunday 12th October 2025 We drove Tilly to the cattery at 10am this morning before heading down the M6 to Rutland Water where we’d booked a couple of nights in a posh hotel courtesy of Secret Escapes. The weather forecast was for the early morning mist to clear, but it didn’t, and we so arrived […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]