(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 …
Giving London a chance is one of the first real meaty plans that I had for my trip, given that I'd grown up barely ever setting foot in the place and being otherwise somewhat prejudiced against it for its centre-of-everything, arrogant nature, and of-course its location in the south of the country which earned instant …
Following what must have been one of the most exhausting days of my life on day one, I had a decidedly pleasant follow up to York, close enough that I set off in the early evening. Things would improve further too with York being my first major stop-offs, with a whole day to rest. And …
(Note: For some reason I haven't made a habit of getting pictures of my hosts, so the picture is completely unrelated - it's me and my friend Ryan at the Humber bridge before cycling over it) Money makes the world go round, they say. I've a lot to say about that in itself but …
You are unlikely to find yourself looking for ways to run out of time before going away, the trip itself, preparations for it and other general occurrences will happily do that for you, but if for whatever reason you feel like giving yourself an even smaller thimble of time to fit your lake of prep …
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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