(Featured image: on the rocks of Riomaggiore with Lara, Grace and Ian (US)) Language Merda! One of the downsides of not 'merging' as much is that the Italian language, my favourite of all, eternally passionate and emotive and simply beautiful to listen to (and speak), eluded me. I don't even think my vocabulary doubled in …
Is it the place itself? The landscape, the landmarks, the land in general? Or is its inhabitants? I think as with most things the answer is somewhere in between, but it has been an inescapable realisation while travelling that the latter are much more interesting in the long run. People are constantly different, whether it's …
Having spent a good 95% of my life in the UK, I know it pretty well, and it comes as natural that anywhere else I go gets judged on my experience from back home. And it also means that those 'anywhere else's are very much somewhere else, and to me relatively unexplored and new. So …
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I'm not sure whether I mentioned it or not, Â but one of the big things I'm into is history, and one of the big historical attractions of a European cycling tour (or any tour for that matter) is castles. I like castles. And so following a terrible record of castle-seeing/conquering in the UK (I went …
By my pretty average translation it means 'I cycled, I saw, I conquered'. That's quite close to what I hope to do with my summer next year. From the Lavender Routes of France to the cycle-heaven planes of The Netherlands, via ice caves and capital cities, mountaintops and sweeping coastlines, through 11 countries in around …
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