Today is Sunday 18th July 2010. The day has come for me to set off on my own road to Rome and beyond. Below is the first post written on this blog back in summer 2008; The ancient route from Canterbury to Rome, followed by archbishops travelling to […]
The brackets are required as I don’t know whether this will be an explanation (“How Twitter Works”) or a question (“How Does Twitter Work?”). I am, as you are aware, on Twitter. Over there on the left. My most recent post being about Dierdre Barlow (ha! I spelt […]
I’ve decided that, as an extra motivation to keep cycling (especially when I get to The Alps!) that it makes sense for my efforts to help support a charity. Over the last month I have been avidly watching Springwatch on the TV and then caught the BBC “Wild […]
Not according to BBC Radio 5 Live; the presenter ofย the early news programmeย welcomed the nationย this morning with the following words; Good morning, it’s 5 o’clockย onย Friday 18th July and welcome to Morning Reports… I didn’t sleep well last night so I knew for sure she was wrong and I […]
This cycling thing is catching on…. The following from the BBC website; Adventurers James Cracknell and Ben Fogle are to tackle a 2,745-mile bike race for their next TV challenge. The Tour Divide – which stretches from Canada to Mexico – is the world’s longest off-road race. Cracknell […]
Click on the pic! This is from the same part of the BBC website and I like how the blog post statistic is actually a number you can visualise…
I just came across these webpages which have been archived on the BBC website.ย They are about Jane Tomlinson and how she cycled from Rome to Leeds in May 2004. Here is an extract about Jane Tomlinson from Wikipedia; Jane Emily Goward was born in Wakefield in Yorkshire in […]
Some frightening moments in the 2nd of Mark Beaumont’s documentaries. I have only just finished watching this episode as 10.30pm on a Tuesday night is just far too late for a school teacher! On leaving Mexico and entering Guatemala, Mark was joined by a cameraman from the BBC. […]
