I look forward to the day when I don’t feel guilty about spending money. I’m 40 and I still do!Anyway, my “investing” in equipment for the journey has started. It does read a bit like a Mastercard advert without the “priceless” bit at the end:Cotswold Leisure:Berghaus Fleece & […]
Today has been a funny day. Let’s start on a good point: my deliveries have started to arrive – Mark Beaumont’s book. But then it rained…and rained… when will this English summer start? I plodded up to AW Cycles, my bike shop of choice to invest in more […]
It was such a beautiful day so I thought I would have a go at videoing the journey to work (Reading to Henley). That wasn’t too successful as the camera (my mobile phone) kept bouncing up and down as I fell into the finest potholes that the combined […]
The following post was on the Via Francigena Yahoo group – it’s quite relevant (usually they talk about walking rather than cycling):HiMy husband and I completed the Via in mid Oct. Assembled our bikes at Gatwick then rode to Canterbury and then to Rome – it took about […]
Back home now, sinking my first beer of 2010 – 4% Stella Artois so I can still feel a bit virtuous (although by the time the bottle of Shiraz I bought to accompanyย my evening meal is demolishedย later, my argument may fall downย a bit) – and reading the posts […]
I have a collection of these photos showing my equipment prior to setting off on some of the rides. Scroll down for a detailed list of equipment that I took on the Tarifa to Nordkapp trip in 2015, but here are a few more recent pictures in the […]