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Tour de France dairies 2022

Twenty one bends. Any space that a camper fits is filled, many German, French and Belgians camped out, Dutch corner banging out euro pop at 9.30am, thirty six hours before […]

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De la Med à la Manche – part I

Saturday I tap the gear shift button. Nothing. Fucking fuck! I’ve just snagged the di2 cable in the seat clamp rebuilding the bike outside Montpelier airport and now I have […]

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Monts et Rivieres

Turn left out of the drive and start climbing. Ten kilometres of up. Not steep but constant. Compared to home these hills are mountains, up through the trees to the […]

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Flanders To The Alps: Notes On A Tour [Part 2]

Day 7 – Montriond and Morzine (18km) Snooze. Into Morzine […]

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Flanders To The Alps: Notes On A Tour [Part 1]

Day 1 – Hastings, UK to Gent, Belgium (216km) Meet […]

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A Week in the Dolomites

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Transcontinental pt.IV – scratch to Poland via CP3

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Transcontinental pt.III – CP2 to (almost) CP3

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Transcontinental pt.II – CP1 to CP2

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Alpine Weekender

Thursday “Not here, you need to be at the North Terminal”. I really should have checked my boarding pass before I joined the huge queue to drop off my bike […]

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Vuelta de Los Picos // Dia 5 // Riaño to Oviedo

We wake up to a very different view out of […]

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Vuelta de Los Picos // Dia 4 // Riaño to Cain de Valdeón to Riaño

We wake up to sunlight streaming through the apartment windows. […]

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Vuelta de Los Picos // Dia 1 // Asturias airport to Cangas de Onis

As our flight descends over the Atlantic Ocean towards the […]

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I turn left at the bottom of the road…

…and I start to climb and climb and climb. From the river’s edge to meet the rising sun. Out of the shadows, layer upon layer of blue-green hills stretch away […]