Sunday 26th April 2026 I’m very much a planner. And I feel lucky to be made that way since I derive almost as much as enjoyment from the planning process as in the activity itself. But I’m also a worrier, which I think is complemented by planning – one mitigates the other. When I conceived […]
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Prior to Norfolk
Monday 20th April 2026 I haven’t been out much on the bike recently, following an unfortunate incident with a dog which removed rather more skin from my knuckle than I was willing to donate. It’s not a very engaging story (and a bit gory), so I won’t dwell on it, but suffice to say I […]
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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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 […]
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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49. North Wales trip
Wednesday 20th March 2024 It rained all through January and February (well, it seemed like it) so I had no desire to go very far on the bike during those months. Anticipating the start of drier weather, I had toyed with the idea of cycling to Conwy and back over four days but decided against […]