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 …
Continue reading "France: Crash-Course Comparisons (part 1)"
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 …
For the past couple of weeks I've been setting up the very basic framework of velo-vidi-vici.com, and now I think it's just about complete enough to share, so if you're coming here from my Facebook/Twitter etc, hello! The site is still pretty bare, it has be said. It will operate mainly like a blog once I'm …
velo-vidi-vici.com 