The roads have gone pots
woollypigs Well the trip to Cardiff went well and I spent some time in the tourist trap that is Cardiff bay before I went to a pub for a quiet pint.…
cycle touring
Map, always remember the map
So I’m sitting on the train to Cardiff, Wales. I just managed to get on the train after a mad dash across town. I left home with plenty of time…
Route planning with Google
We are about to go on a small tour of Wales and England this weekend. Taking the train from London to Abergavenny in Wales where we will stay at Pen-y-Dre…
G’day mate
Good news our dream is now so much closer that it is getting a bit scary. We have talked about going Australia and New Zealand for a while and this…
A bike ride by Anne Mustoe
Anne tells a lie in her book A bike ride, she doesn’t cycle 12,000 miles around the world. She only cycles 11,552 miles around the world, but I too would…
Thank you and good luck
Last Tuesday I went and had a little meet up with other bicycle touring mad people, some clearly madder than me, just. Alastair Humphrey’s came up with the idea of…
Bicycle tourist meet up, Tuesday, March 9th 2010.
I was reading The Travelling Two website tonight as fell over a post there, Alastair Humphreys is planing a meet up for bike tourist, March 9th. I thought that it…
Rainlegs
I think the Rainlegs were created for horse riders but soon found its way to cycling and other outdoor activities. The first time I saw them, I honestly thought that…
Sheldon Brown 07.14.1944 – 02.03.2008
Today is the sad anniversary of the departure of Sheldon Brown two years ago. I have never met Sheldon but I have heavily used his website and learned a lot…
5,915.65 miles for 2009
Last year took us to Scotland (Grand tour of Edinburgh) , Wales (3 wet days loop), Surrey Hills (3 days tour with TEA), Isle of Wight (one small wet ride),…