Winter is well and truly here. Yesterday was the first cycle to work which I would describe as numbingly cold. The kind of cold that actually hurts. I am well wrapped up and have four thin layers to keep me warm, but when I arrived at work I […]
You don't see the best side of the outskirts of Birmingham while sitting on a stationary train.
The book with this name records great explorations since time began, whenever that might have been. I was browsing through it in the travel section of Waterstones this afternoon – the same corner of the bookshop where I struck up conversation with Mary Bryant a few weeks ago. […]
What a name! He does, however, go by the more humble “Fred” and he has been in contact: Dear Andrew,I read with some considerable interest your plans for next year’s cycle to Brindisi. I’m planning to restart my journey from Rome to Jerusalem in April but as a […]