I was challenged to a fight last Wednesday. A pot-bellied bedraggled black Toyota tail-gated me up the road as I cycled home from work, horn blaring intermittently. This on a residential street crammed with parked cars, with nowhere for me to go to allow him past. Sadly this is fairly average, what happened next, not […]
Read more "Cars and Freedom"In February 2018 the three of us decided to take a return trip to Twice Brewed on the Wall. Well, in truth, Millie didn’t get a vote, but was happy to tag along. This is where we came in, right back at the start of this story. After I visited Vindolanda that morning, Myshele had […]
Read more "Borderland: Fresh Adventures"Chapter 2 – The Speyside Way Part 1 I almost titled this chapter, “The Whisky Way”, because it’s really what the Speyside way is about, really, despite the official website describing it like this: “The Speyside Way is one of four official Long Distance Routes in Scotland (the others are the West Highland Way, the […]
Read more "Borderland: Speyside Way, Part 1"This is an extract from a thing I’m working on. It isn’t directly about cycling, this is kind of an ranting aside… All feedback appreciated! 🙂 I love the work that Sustrans do to promote active travel across the UK. I have enjoyed many trips across Scotland on my bike, most of the time […]
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