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In search of English counties   

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 […]

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Gathering tiles in September

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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Touring the Southeast of England

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 […]

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Wooler trip

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 […]