Tag: Eurovelo 8

The Cycling Europe Podcast: Episode 079 – The Cycle Touring Festival / Albania

By Andrew on June 1, 2024 • ( Leave a comment )

Most episodes of The Cycling Europe Podcast know where they are going from the outset. This episode is slightly different. We start in the English Lake District to take in the sounds of the recent Cycle Touring Festival in its new home of Coniston. We then head to India to hear from long-distance cyclist James Thomas. He lives in a coastal town in Goa on the shore of the Arabian Sea but often ventures into the mountains on foot and on his bike. He reflects upon his current experiences in India as well as past experiences cycling through Europe, especially Albania. We stay in Albania for an extract from Along The Med on a Bike Called Reggie, Andrew P. Sykes’ travelogue about cycling the EuroVelo 8 from Greece to Portugal in 2013. To explain if things have changed in the past decade, the podcast speaks to Dritan Kolgjini, a tour guide for Explore Travel’s Albanian cycling trips. Does the country really live up to its reputation of being the ‘new Croatia’?

The Alpe Adria Cycle Path

By Andrew on March 28, 2024 • ( 1 Comment )

A while ago – back in November 2023 – I published an episode of The Cycling Europe Podcast (number 076) that consisted of an interview with a friend of mine, Tim Sanders. I know him through the Cycle Touring Festival and the podcast was actually recorded at last year’s event. (This year’s event is at the start of May by the way – see the recent post here on CyclingEurope.org.) Tim talked about cycling from Venice to Munich via Innsbruck in Austria on a route called, err… münchen venezia. It needs a better name than that but there you go. When I received an email a few days ago from ‘freewheeling’ David I thought he was writing about the route that Tim had discussed in the podcast. But he wasn’t…

The Cycling Europe Podcast: Episode 077 – Agathe Daudibon / Svetlana & Quentin / Seth Maltzmann

By Andrew on February 14, 2024 • ( Leave a comment )

The Cycling Europe Podcast is back and for this first episode of 2024 we have a triple-whammy of cycling-themed chats and stories. The EuroVelo network is now 26 years old but it’s not resting on its laurels. Agathe Daudibon of the European Cyclists’ Federation is the person responsible for looking after the network and developing it further. She talked to the podcast about her background in cycle touring, her role at the ECF and how she sees the future of the pan-European network. Svetlana and Quentin, from Oxford, talk about their experiences of cycling along the coast in Croatia. And Seth provides something that he feels the podcast is missing; how bike tours can “turn into complete disasters”. His certainly have!

The Cycling Europe Podcast: Episode 076 – Tim Sanders – The Parenzana Trail / Venice to Munich

By Andrew on November 2, 2023 • ( Leave a comment )

Tim Sanders holds the accolade of being one of only two people to have attended every single Cycle Touring Festival since the event first appeared on the calendar in 2015. During this year’s event in Clitheroe he spoke to The Cycling Europe Podcast not only about the joys of the festival but also about a recent cycling journey that took him from the Istrian Peninsula on the Adriatic coast along the Parenzana Trail to Trieste and onwards over the Alps to Munich in southern Germany.

EuroVelo 8 – Mediterranean Route: (My) Once-In-A-lifetime Experience

By Andrew on February 1, 2023 • ( 2 Comments )

It will soon be 10 years that I set off to cycle along the Mediterranean coast from Cape Sounio in southern Greece to Cape St. Vincent in southern Portugal. My route was inspired by the EuroVelo 8, although it was much less developed back then than it is today. I saw some EuroVelo 8 signs in Catalonia but aside from that, I’m not quite sure I saw any elsewhere. And after Valencia, when I was beginning to run short of time – I needed to be back at work at the beginning of September – I headed inland, away from the coast in order to complete the journey without resorting to jumping on the train.

Le Grand Tour: Day 17 – Roz-Sur-Cousenon To Saint-Briac-Sur-Mer (72km)

By Andrew on July 19, 2022 • ( 11 Comments )

If I wanted variety after having cycled along the seemingly endless disused railway tracks of the Veloscenie, I certainly got variety today after my day of rest / escape from the heat. The cycling was varied, the landscape was varied, the weather was varied…

The Cycling Europe Podcast: Episode 051 – Freewheeling In France With Lyn Eyb

By Andrew on June 18, 2022 • ( 2 Comments )

France is a top destination for cycle tourists and, with its great diversity of landscapes – from windswept cliffs in the north to vast swathes of forest in the west to sun-drenched villages in the south to vertiginous climbs in the east – it has (almost) everything that a traveller on a bicycle might want to discover. Lyn Eyb from FreeWheelingFrance.com has been exploring and writing about France ever since she arrived in the country over a decade ago. She shares her thoughts with The Cycling Europe Podcast and takes time to answer listeners’ questions about the practical aspects of being a cyclist in France.

Escaping Europe… In Europe: France / Albania

By Andrew on February 23, 2022 • ( Leave a comment )

In a week when the news here in Europe has been dominated by… well, let’s not go there other than to note that Putin needs to ride his bike a bit more often and shed the macho persona he so loves, I have been transported off to France and then across the whole of Europe courtesy of two conversations that I have recorded for upcoming episodes of The Cycling Europe Podcast.

EuroVelo: The State Of The Network Address

By Andrew on June 2, 2021 • ( Leave a comment )

Like Chris Packham of Springwatch fame, I love a good graph or visual that says something in one glance that would take a thousand words to explain. And the European Cyclists’ Federation (ECF) – the Brussels-based organisation that is responsible for the EuroVelo network have just produced its first ever ‘Route Development Report’. Basically, it’s a ‘state of the nation’ address but limited to the EuroVelo long-distance cycle routes rather than the less important topics such as education, health and defence…

EuroVelo Extra: The Facts And The Figures

By Andrew on May 13, 2020 • ( Leave a comment )

The ECF have just published a ‘press pack’ of information about the EuroVelo network. Here are a few snippets. They complement perfectly what Ed Lancaster said on the The Cycling Europe Podcast that was published last week.

Paul Gentle’s Tarifa to Nordkapp 2020: France, Part 2

By Andrew on May 12, 2020 • ( 6 Comments )

If you listened to Episode 015 of The Cycling Europe Podcast you will remember that Paul didn’t make it quite as far as Nordkapp, for fairly obvious reasons. But he did make it as far as Nice in France and will hopefully one day soon return to complete the journey. But here in the written world of these CyclingEurope.org posts (as opposed to the spoken world of podcasts), Paul has just arrived in France and is heading in the direction of Nice…

Paul Gentle’s Tarifa to Nordkapp 2020: France, Part 1

By Andrew on April 13, 2020 • ( 1 Comment )

Paul Gentle’s Tarifa to Nordkapp 2020: Spain, Part 4

By Andrew on April 2, 2020 • ( Leave a comment )

If you listened to Episode 015 of The Cycling Europe Podcast you will remember that Paul didn’t make it quite as far as Nordkapp, for fairly obvious reasons. But he did make it as far as Nice in France and will hopefully one day soon return to complete the journey. But here in the written world of these CyclingEurope.org posts (as opposed to the spoken world of podcasts), Paul is in Barcelona and about to set off in the direction of France…

Warning: Detailed (And I Mean Detailed) Maps Of The EuroVelo Network

By Andrew on February 23, 2020 • ( 4 Comments )

One for the maps geeks. (Of which I am one…) You may wish to turn away if you have a dodgy internet connection as clicking on the links below is likely to test your patience in terms of download time, but I will persist. It is often a […]

The Best Reason To Return The Parthenon Marbles…

By Andrew on February 19, 2020 • ( 3 Comments )

I note that the Parthenon (‘Elgin’) Marbles are in the news… Back in 2013 at the start of my cycle ‘Along The Med…’ I was given a guided tour of the Parthenon and New Acropolis Museum by a woman called Maria from the ‘Marbles Reunited’ association. For those […]

Cycling The EuroVelo 8 Mediterranean Route: The Brochure!

By Andrew on January 24, 2020 • ( Leave a comment )

Every EuroVelo could do with one of these… Hopefully sometime soon they will. A glossy 90-page brochure giving an excellent overview of the EuroVelo 8 Mediterranean Route that I cycled back in 2013. The route is broken down into 15 sections starting in Cadiz and finishing in Cyprus […]

The Social Side Of EuroVelo

By Andrew on March 18, 2019 • ( Leave a comment )

In the ten years that CyclingEurope.org has existed in this little corner of the worldwide web, one major thing has changed online; social media has taken over, or so it sometimes seems. Not that I’m complaining. It’s a great way of keeping up-to-date with others around the globe […]

EuroVelo 8: La Méditerranée A Vélo

By Andrew on February 27, 2018 • ( Leave a comment )

Cold? This might warm you up… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cKL6BH8EpA&t=30s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEvL_fBwQmw …as might reading this; my 2nd (and favourite) book, Along The Med on a Bike Called Reggie, where I cycled the length of the EuroVelo 8 from Greece to Portugal:

Cycling Day 4: Dos Hermanas To Sevilla

By Andrew on April 12, 2015 • ( 1 Comment )

Click here to see the detailed statistics of today’s cycle I had to wait until nearly halfway through the Eurovelo 8 trip along the Mediterranean to intersect with my previous continental crossing – my take on the Eurovelo 5 – in Piacenza, Italy. I even posted a video […]

Cycling Day 2: Conil (Fuente Del Gallo) To Jerez De La Frontera

By Andrew on April 10, 2015 • ( 1 Comment )

Click here to see the detailed statistics of today’s cycle. Well I did have a brilliant idea (see the last paragraph of ‘cycling day 1’), although it wasn’t that brilliant. I looked again at the online maps and there was clearly lots of back roads that would take […]

Cycling Day 1: Tarifa To Conil (Fuente Del Gallo)

By Andrew on April 9, 2015 • ( 8 Comments )

Click here to see the detailed statistics of today’s cycle. Finally, it’s started! I’m sure you are as relieved as me… It was a soggy morning back in Tarifa (see previous post) but after that very virtuous breakfast it was off to knock on the door of the […]

Ditching The Rough Guides In Favour Of…

By Andrew on March 29, 2015 • ( 1 Comment )

I would happily class myself as an enthusiastic early adopter of technology, especially when it comes to cycling. Back in 2009 when I cycled along the Pennine Cycleway as a shakedown of my skills as a first time touring cyclist I blogged as I travelled having moved on from writing […]

Preconceptions Of Cádiz, Andalucia, Spain

By Andrew on February 23, 2015 • ( 5 Comments )

A few weeks ago I moved away from Reading in Berkshire having lived there for just over fifteen years. I can clearly remember my first visit to the town in Spring 1999 when I was summoned to the university for an interview. It was a horribly wet and windy […]

Cycling In Spain

By Andrew on February 10, 2015 • ( 3 Comments )

So finally, after Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Belgium and France… I arrive at the beginning (if that makes sense), in Spain. If you remember, my posts about cycling through each of the countries of the Eurovelo 1/3 route that I will be following later in the year were […]

I’ve Been Thinking… Time For A Small Change

By Andrew on November 15, 2014 • ( 6 Comments )

I spend more time doing that than doing, if that makes sense. The focus of my recent thoughts has been the Spanish portion of my 2015 ride along the Eurovelo 3 from Santiago de Compostela to Trondheim (and then North Cape via the Eurovelo 1). A Twitter twit […]

2015: A Rambling Update (That Has Nothing To Do With Rambling)

By Andrew on November 2, 2014 • ( 3 Comments )

I write this from an ever-so-slightly echoey flat. Last week my plans for 2015 took a significant step forward in that I moved the bulk of what is best described as my ‘stuff’ to Yorkshire and it is now sitting in a large heap in the garage of […]

Eurovelo 3 Plus: Back Of An Envelope Time…

By Andrew on August 30, 2014 • ( 4 Comments )

I’ve just been looking at the descriptions and maps produced by the European Cyclists’ Federation (ECF) for the Eurovelo 3 and the portion of the Eurovelo 1 that would guide me from Santiago de Compostela to North Cape. You can have a read of the descriptions here. I […]

Press Release: ‘Along The Med on a Bike Called Reggie’

By Andrew on July 30, 2014 • ( 2 Comments )

Well, I’ve got to have a press release, no? Press Release: ‘Along The Med on a Bike Called Reggie’ For immediate distribution Wednesday 30th July 2014, Reading, Berkshire We are delighted to announce the publication of the cycling travelogue ‘Along The Med on a Bike Called Reggie‘ by Yorkshire […]

EXCLUSIVE EXTRACT 1: Along The Med on a Bike Called Reggie

By Andrew on March 15, 2014 • ( 8 Comments )

Over the next few months as I write about my 2013 cycle from Greece to Portugal along the (rough) line of the Eurovelo 8, I will publish an occasional extract from the book here on CyclingEurope.org. The book will be published on the 10th June 2014. Here is the first […]

Eurovelo 13 / The Iron Curtain Trail

By Andrew on November 10, 2013 • ( 9 Comments )

Not sure if you have ever explored the further reaches of this website. If you haven’t you may not have visited the section called ‘Eurovelos 1-15‘. It’s over there on the right sandwiched between ‘Eurovelo 8‘ and ‘Pennine Cycle‘. Found it? Good. I have to say that I […]

The European Cyclists’ Federation Interview

By Andrew on September 30, 2013 • ( 4 Comments )

The ECF have just published an interview with me where I discuss this summer’s cycle from Greece to Portugal along the rough line of the Eurovelo 8. The interview can be found on the ECF’s increasingly useful Eurovelo website in a slighted edited form. The full interview is […]

The Eurovelo 8: List Of Blog Links

By Andrew on September 21, 2013 • ( Leave a comment )

Having just spent several hours doing this, I’m also going to elevate what is otherwise hidden away in the Eurovelo 8 section of the site to its own blog post. Here are the links to the original blog posts made during the trip along the Eurovelo 8 (or […]

Eurovelo 15 / The Rhine Cycle Route

By Andrew on September 21, 2013 • ( 6 Comments )

I used to regularly post extracts from emails that I received on here but recently I seem to have stopped doing so. For no particular reason. It’s a delight to be asked about the routes that I have cycled and, quite often, those that I haven’t. I try […]

Cape St. Vincent, Sunset, Wednesday 28th August 2013

By Andrew on August 30, 2013 • ( 4 Comments )

Greece To Portugal: Summary Statistics

By Andrew on August 29, 2013 • ( Leave a comment )

Here is the summary of fifty days of cycling. The day I cycled up Mont Ventoux was officially a ‘rest day’ so not included which is why it gets a box of its own…

Heading Home…

By Andrew on August 29, 2013 • ( 4 Comments )

It didn’t take long for the practicalities of life on the road to kick in after my arrival at Cape St. Vincent. As I was recording the video clip in the previous post my mind was on the clock as I knew that the campsite supermarket closed at […]

Cycling Day 50: 5.50pm Cape St. Vincent & The End Of The Journey

By Andrew on August 28, 2013 • ( 10 Comments )

Cycling Day 50: 5.10pm

By Andrew on August 28, 2013 • ( 3 Comments )

Arrived at Camping Sagres – great site – and the tent is pitched. Reggie has been relieved of most of his panniers. All that remains is for us to cycle the remaining 6km to Cape St. Vincent. This plan is coming together…

Cycling Day 50: 2.20pm

By Andrew on August 28, 2013 • ( Leave a comment )

Made it to Lagos & about to tuck into lunch; some pasta for that final bit of cycling. The N125 is now a lot quieter although the condition of the road itself deteriorates as each kilometre goes by. The wind is picking up however and I assume will […]

Cycling Day 50: 1pm

By Andrew on August 28, 2013 • ( Leave a comment )

Slight change of plan (as ever). Both Albufeira & Portimão were inconveniently distant from the lovely N125 so I have pressed on. The latter didn’t look at all appealing from the modern bridge spanning the wide estuary just to one side of the city with a skyline of […]

Cycling Day 50: 10.30am

By Andrew on August 28, 2013 • ( 2 Comments )

Just over 25km cycled. Leaving Faro involved snaking through back roads but I was eventually allowed back onto the N125. Not that there is much joy on this road; poor surface, heavy traffic, no real view… But it’s a necessary evil. I’ll pause for coffee in Albufeira at […]

Cycling Day 49: El Portil (Near Huelva) To Faro

By Andrew on August 27, 2013 • ( 7 Comments )

So, the penultimate day arrives. Or rather arrived as it is now at an end. I bid my cousin farewell with the intention of seeing him again later in the day at a campsite somewhere along the Algarve in Portugal but even by 9am this morning I was […]

An Evening In Faro

By Andrew on August 27, 2013 • ( Leave a comment )

Cycling Day 48: Seville To El Portil (Near Huelva)

By Andrew on August 27, 2013 • ( 4 Comments )

It was a slightly delayed start to day 48 as I spent a little time cycling around the streets of Seville. Like many towns and cities in Andalusia, cobbles seem to be everywhere and I have spent a significant amount of time over the last few days teetering […]

Monday Morning In Seville

By Andrew on August 26, 2013 • ( 1 Comment )

It’s a bit grey here but I did manage to find a little bit of colour in Seville…

Cycling Day 47: Lucena To Seville

By Andrew on August 25, 2013 • ( 1 Comment )

When I sat down in the hotel in Valencia and planned the remaining few days of the trip I knew that cycling day 47 would be the crunch day. If I managed to get to Seville by the end of Sunday then I knew that there would be […]

Cycling Day 46: Jaén To Lucena

By Andrew on August 24, 2013 • ( 2 Comments )

Time to catch up before I forget! Cycling day 46 was the big Vias Verdes day and after the mixed feeling about Via Verde number 1 from Albacete a few days ago I was hoping for someone far better. Did I get it? I suspect that if you’d […]

Cycling Day 45: Ubeda To Jaén

By Andrew on August 23, 2013 • ( Leave a comment )

I’m not sure whether Pablo hadn’t offered me the private mini guided tour of Ubeda I would have got any further than Jaen today or not. It was a modest cycle by the standards of this jaunt across Europe – a mere 63km, only just over half the […]

Ubeda: A Private Guided Tour

By Andrew on August 23, 2013 • ( 2 Comments )

Slightly delayed departure this morning but I don’t mind in the least. It’s not every day that the owner of the hotel where you are staying gives you a private guided tour of a nearby ancient monument. The one in question was the one shown here – which […]

Cycling Day 44: Peñascosa To Ubeda

By Andrew on August 22, 2013 • ( Leave a comment )

Cycling Day 44 is easy to describe. I set off from Camping Peñascosa, I had breakfast from a bakery on the main street of nearby Alcaraz, I cycled about 125km from Alcaraz to Ubeda along the N322 pausing from time to time at petrol stations for snacks and […]

Cycling Day 43: Albacete To Peñascosa

By Andrew on August 21, 2013 • ( 5 Comments )

Apologies for the lack of text to go with the pictures when I initially posted about cycling day 43. If I had written anything late last night it would have been rambling gibberish (‘no change there then’ I hear you cry!) as a result of the quantity of […]

5,000.1Kilometres

By Andrew on August 21, 2013 • ( 1 Comment )

About 30 minutes ago I cycled my 5,000th kilometre. Unfortunately I was in a dark tunnel at the time… If anyone fancies working out approximately how many kilometres I still have to cycle (along the lines of the plan posted here a couple of days ago) I’d be […]

Cycling Day 42: Cofrentes To Albacete (Twice)

By Andrew on August 20, 2013 • ( 2 Comments )

This morning things were going relatively well. I think I’m beginning to resign myself to struggling through the first 20 to 30 kilometres of the day as my increasingly weary legs take this time in warming up. Today was no different to recent days but I persevered and […]

Cycling Day 41: Valencia To Cofrentes

By Andrew on August 19, 2013 • ( Leave a comment )

After having cycled the first 30km this morning I felt as though I must have cycled over 250km the day before last. Which is strange because I had. I hadn’t felt the effects of Saturday’s long-distance effort on my day off yesterday wandering around Valencia but once I […]

The Last Leg: Valencia To Cape St. Vincent (Portugal)

By Andrew on August 18, 2013 • ( 9 Comments )

If the manager of this hotel were to walk in right now, I’d probably get thrown out for moving all the furniture around. I needed a space large enough to piece together the final three maps which has just allowed me to work out a little more detail […]

Rest Day 9: Valencia, Old & New

By Andrew on August 18, 2013 • ( Leave a comment )

Cycling Day 40: Tarragona To Valencia*

By Andrew on August 18, 2013 • ( 10 Comments )

The non-Guardian reader campsite (see cycling day 39) provided me with a supermarket evening feast which I ate whilst sitting in the tent as I failed miserably in my attempt to find a chair upon which to sit and do the same thing. At least I was spared […]

Cycling Day 39: Barcelona To Tarragona

By Andrew on August 16, 2013 • ( 1 Comment )

To say I didn’t set off until around midday today, the distance I managed to cycle – some 93km – wasn’t too bad at all. But whereas quantity wasn’t lacking, quality was. It was not an enjoyable ride apart from one short portion in the ten or so […]

Cycling Day 38: L’Estartit To Barcelona

By Andrew on August 16, 2013 • ( 5 Comments )

Dave and Pauline’s hospitality didn’t stop in the evening; it continued in the morning where I was presented with a very nice full English breakfast. The Cockers don’t even eat breakfast while in Spain – they prefer to eat later and have a large lunch – so it […]

Cycling Day 37: Perpignan To L’Estartit

By Andrew on August 16, 2013 • ( 2 Comments )

The problem with writing these updates a couple of days after the events is that I forget so much so quickly. It can be very frustrating but here goes… I had breakfast in the centre of Perpignan and was still not sure which route to take into Spain. […]

Video: Barcelona Update

By Andrew on August 16, 2013 • ( Leave a comment )

Almost live from central Barcelona…

La Côte Rouge, France

By Andrew on August 14, 2013 • ( 2 Comments )

I’m about to enter country number 9, Spain, but this last ride in France along what I’ve seen referred to as the ‘Red Coast’ south of Argelès has, despite the cars, been a delight…

Cycling Day 36: The Pilgrims’ Nest (Near Villardebelle) To Perpignan

By Andrew on August 13, 2013 • ( 1 Comment )

Eddy wasn’t just good, interesting company; he was useful company. Before the combined effects of the food, cycling and two glasses of local white wine (I know, sorry, I’m a lightweight) had had their effects, he talked to me about his own experiences of cycling through Spain and […]

Cycling Day 35: Béziers To ‘The Pilgrims’ Nest’ (Near Villardebelle)

By Andrew on August 13, 2013 • ( Leave a comment )

Here we go. Apologies for the late update but I’m not going to move from my seat here in the garden of the Ibis hotel in central Perpignan until cycling days 35 & 36 are written. I may order another beer at some point. Life can be tough […]

Cycling Day 34: Nîmes To Béziers

By Andrew on August 12, 2013 • ( 6 Comments )

I’ve just heard on the radio that the Prime Minister back in Britain wants a ‘cycling revolution’. Well, good luck with that but its a shame he wasn’t cycling with me yesterday as I made my way along the coast from La Grande-Motte towards Béziers. Some excellent examples […]

An Evening In Béziers

By Andrew on August 11, 2013 • ( 2 Comments )

I tweeted earlier today pointing out how nice it was to spend Sunday morning cycling around an unknown town (see the next post for some of the pictures from Nîmes). I could say something similar about Sunday evening although in Béziers tonight it was without the bike…

Cycling Day 33: Villes-sur-Auzon To Nîmes

By Andrew on August 10, 2013 • ( 2 Comments )

Today was, at times, at many times, a frustrating day. The wind, the roads, the signage, the route, the tourist destinations. They all conspired together. Perhaps they wanted to show me another side to Provence before I departed for the (mainly) flatlands of Langudoc-Rousillon, a meaner, grittier, kick […]

Rest Day 8: Mont Ventoux

By Andrew on August 10, 2013 • ( 5 Comments )

Mont Ventoux is a place with iconic status but one about which I knew little about until just a few months ago. Scouting around for interesting cycling-related things to do whilst crossing southern France, I simply noted on the map that Mont Ventoux was actually in the very […]

Cycling Day 32: Gréoux-les-Bains To Villes-sur-Auzon

By Andrew on August 9, 2013 • ( 1 Comment )

Time to catch up. I’m a little behind so if you are waiting for the story of Mont Ventoux, please bear with me as I first update you on cycling day 32. Even before I retreated to my tent at the end of cycling day 31, the campsite […]

Provence In Photos

By Andrew on August 9, 2013 • ( 2 Comments )

Cycling Day 31: Castellane To Gréoux-les-Bains

By Andrew on August 7, 2013 • ( 2 Comments )

Back in summer 2010 it took me 30 cycling days to get to Brindisi in the south of Italy from my home in southern England. It’s now cycling day 31 on this particular trip. I cycled 3,311km three years ago averaging 110km per day. I’m currently averaging about […]

Cycling Day 30: Nice To Castellane

By Andrew on August 7, 2013 • ( 2 Comments )

Now in Castellane. This may not get sent tonight as 3G doesn’t seem to actually be 3G in this corner of the Alps of high Provence (that’s what the French call this department or county). Split infinitive there, sorry but moving the ‘actually’ elsewhere seems to change the […]

Video: Nice To Mont Ventoux

By Andrew on August 5, 2013 • ( Leave a comment )

Rest Day 7: Nice, Côte d’Azur, France

By Andrew on August 5, 2013 • ( 4 Comments )

Cycling Day 29: Limone-Piemonte to Nice

By Andrew on August 5, 2013 • ( 2 Comments )

I can’t say for sure but it wouldn’t surprise me if great works of travel literature have been penned whilst sitting in laundrettes worldwide. If they haven’t, this short piece describing my cycle from the Italian Alps to the French Riviera may be a first. But I doubt […]

Video: The Tende Pass

By Andrew on August 4, 2013 • ( 4 Comments )

Limone-Piemonte: Next Stop France

By Andrew on August 4, 2013 • ( Leave a comment )

Cycling Day 28: Cherasco To Limone-Piemonte

By Andrew on August 3, 2013 • ( 3 Comments )

May I first of all start with a public plea to the sign makers of Italy; sort it out! I experienced the same problems back in 2010 and am having to cycle through the frustration of the same signage ‘idiosyncrasies’ in 2013. I’m being polite. How difficult can […]

Cycling Day 27: Pragate (Near Voghera) To Cherasco

By Andrew on August 3, 2013 • ( 3 Comments )

It’s now midday on Saturday and I’ve arrived in the town of Cuneo just above the plain of northern Italy. Not too high – just 550m – but the highest that I’ve been since arriving in Italy and from here over the course of the next 24 hours […]

Cycling Day 26: Cornovecchio (Near Cremona) To Pragate (Near Voghera)

By Andrew on August 2, 2013 • ( 3 Comments )

It was the equivalent of one of those days when you turn up at work and just potter around doing bits and pieces but never seem to get to tackling the big issues in your job. This tends to happen for me as a teacher on the very […]

Video: 2013 Meets 2010 In Piacenza

By Andrew on August 1, 2013 • ( Leave a comment )

Cycling Day 25: Verona To Cornovecchio (Near Cremona)

By Andrew on August 1, 2013 • ( Leave a comment )

Time to catch up on yesterday’s events along the road to Portugal. Sometimes I arrive either too late in a place to muster up the necessary energy and concentration to write. In other places when I am staying with someone it would be rude to take myself off […]

A Morning In Fair Verona

By Andrew on August 1, 2013 • ( Leave a comment )

Cycling Day 24: Venice To Verona

By Andrew on July 30, 2013 • ( 4 Comments )

So where are you tonight? Who said that? It’s Ivan, Ivan iPad. Oh my… Haven’t we taken this too far? As I was saying, where are you tonight? Ask me for a Shakespearean quote Err… OK. Andrew, can you give me a quote from Shakespeare? Yes, I’d be […]

Cycling Across Italy – The Plan

By Andrew on July 29, 2013 • ( Leave a comment )

My plans as they stand for the upcoming week are below. As always they will evolve, change, be scrubbed etc… as circumstances & events dictate. My arrival in France will miss the self-imposed deadline of the 1st August (quite considerably) but… If you have any comments or suggestions […]

Rest Day 6: A Damp Day In Venice

By Andrew on July 29, 2013 • ( 2 Comments )

Cycling Day 23: Caorle To Venice

By Andrew on July 28, 2013 • ( 2 Comments )

I started writing this last night but eventually gave in to the weight of my eyelids shutting… How could I not take a day off in Venice? That’s the plan for today but before that, I need to catch up on yesterday’s events, cycling day 23. I have […]

Cycling Day 22: Trieste To Caorle

By Andrew on July 27, 2013 • ( 3 Comments )

So I find myself back by the Adriatic coast but this time in Italy. Just to the north of Venice in a place called Caorle. Or is it Porto Santa Marhgerita? I’m certainly staying at the (very busy) municipal campsite in the latter but I have cycled back […]

Trieste, Italy

By Andrew on July 27, 2013 • ( 2 Comments )

Cycling Day 21: Novi Vinodolski To Trieste

By Andrew on July 26, 2013 • ( 2 Comments )

Apologies. Another late update. The good news is that I am in Italy. I feel that I am at home. Which is very bizarre as I am not Italian, have never lived in Italy and have merely been an occasional visitor to the country over the last twenty […]

Cycling From The Unfamiliar To The Familiar

By Andrew on July 25, 2013 • ( 2 Comments )

After my enforced day off it feels just like the evening before you return to work after having been sick. I am now more or less sure that I wasn’t suffering from dehydration after all and that my problem was a bug that I had picked up somewhere. […]

Rest Day 5: Novi Vinodolski

By Andrew on July 25, 2013 • ( 5 Comments )

When I normally say ‘rest day’ it is no such thing. It’s a ‘day off the bike day’ but today really is a ‘rest day’. I won’t go into detail but I wasn’t particularly well yesterday evening. The symptoms were more associated with a bug of some sort […]

Cycling Day 20: Pag To Novi Vinodolski

By Andrew on July 25, 2013 • ( 1 Comment )

Time to catch up on events of the last 24 hours… For the first time yesterday (cycling day 20) I suffered in the saddle beyond the point of comfort. I self-diagnosed myself as a little dehydrated, combined with that slight fever you can get from having lots of […]

The End Of Croatia Is Nigh

By Andrew on July 24, 2013 • ( 3 Comments )

It’s not imminent – I will still be staying here tonight at some point along the coast – but I can see the end and finally another country. It seems such a long time since I crossed from Montenegro into Croatia. It’s actually only a week but it’s […]

Cycling Day 19: Skradin To Pag

By Andrew on July 23, 2013 • ( 6 Comments )

This place is comedy gold but more about where I am staying tonight later… It was a very quick job packing up back at Chez Zorbin in Skradin. I had a quick chat with him before I left and he explained how he was an engineer and used […]

Cycling Day 18: Stobrec (Near Split) To Skradin

By Andrew on July 22, 2013 • ( 4 Comments )

When I look at the map I don’t seem to have cycled very far today compared to the previous two. However, three days into my post-Dubrovnik campaign to make it over the border into France by the 1st August, the number of kilometres cycled has been comparable to […]

Cycling Day 17: Podaca To Stobrec (Near Split)

By Andrew on July 21, 2013 • ( 3 Comments )

A few months after I had published “Crossing Europe on a Bike Called Reggie” (available in all good book shops, a few not-so-good books shops and online), a chap contacted me to say how wonderful it was (honest) and I subsequently exchanged a few emails with him about […]

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