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Written by Ben Buckton - Incidentsoftravel.comMay 24, 2023June 5, 2023

A Brief Monday Morning News Update

Today I thought I’d post a quick summary of recent news, plus a few stats from my four-day trip down to Dorset last weekend. But before we get on to all that, here’s a very recent picture of my bike outside Beechwood Park School (where I teach for one day a week – hello Beechwood!), […]

Written by Ben Buckton - Incidentsoftravel.comMay 22, 2023May 22, 2023

Shakedown Ride, Day 4 – home leg Ashurst to Chipperfield

If you get google cycling directions from Ashurst to Chipperfield, you’ll see straight away that the entire journey heads northeast. Unfortunately, and despite the glorious sunshine for which I was very grateful, the wind blew southwest towards me all day, for pretty much every mile of my ride. I tried a slightly different route (which […]

Written by Ben Buckton - Incidentsoftravel.comMay 20, 2023May 21, 2023

Shakedown Ride, Day 3 – Litton Cheney back to Ashurst

The heavy rain yesterday followed by the warm sunshine this morning, meant that the air was full of flies and bugs today,which I kept accidentally swallowing as I cycled through clouds of them. It’s a bit of a shame, isn’t it? Such a short life these creatures have, then they spend their first and only […]

Written by Ben Buckton - Incidentsoftravel.comMay 19, 2023June 1, 2023

Shakedown Ride, Day 2 – Ashurst to Litton Cheney

Well I made it to the coast and was greeted by a calm sea, blue sky, a promenade completely submerged in sand, and a double decker bus serving coffee. It all felt a bit too good to last, and it was. To see a virtual aerial view of the route, click here Despite the occasional […]

Written by Ben Buckton - Incidentsoftravel.comMay 18, 2023May 19, 2023

Shakedown Ride Day 1 – Chipperfield to Ashurst

The ride sort of started yesterday, with a pre-shakedown try-out (how much preparation can one man do?) on my usual 25-mile round trip commute to teach at Beechwood Park School. Bags were packed as for today’s ride, plus a few books of music, some spare strings and a stick or two of violin bow rosin. […]

Written by Ben Buckton - Incidentsoftravel.comApril 29, 2023May 2, 2023

How do you train for a long bike trip?

As I discovered from people I met whilst cycling across Canada, there are many different ways to prepare for an extended cycling adventure. Everyone is different, and no-one can honestly say that their own way is best – only that they’ve found it to be the best method for themselves. For reassurance that you’re going […]

Written by Ben Buckton - Incidentsoftravel.comApril 3, 2023June 4, 2023

USA Summer 2023: Cycling Solo from the Bay of Fundy to the Gulf of Mexico

Dear Friends of the Incidents Of Travel website, My dear mum died in January this year, peacefully at home and surrounded by loved ones. When she told me before Christmas that she wanted to hear about something I’d be doing in the near future, something that she didn’t already know about, I told her I’d […]

Written by Ben Buckton - Incidentsoftravel.comAugust 13, 2022August 13, 2022

Hedge graffiti – seriously?

I cycle to and from work most days, and often see things that surprise me. These incidents of my daily travel usually concern the way we behave towards each other on the roads, but they are not really the kind of things that make particularly interesting reading. Then yesterday morning, as I pedalled beside the […]

Written by Ben Buckton - Incidentsoftravel.comAugust 11, 2022August 11, 2022

‘Strange Beings’ of balloon and cardboard

Quite a few years ago now my wife Susie and I had a conversation beside the fire in a pub in our village: I told her I was planning to cycle across Canada, and she said, to paraphrase a much longer discussion, ‘Okay’. That exchange went on to become the start of my book about […]

Written by Ben Buckton - Incidentsoftravel.comMay 30, 2022August 15, 2022

My trip across Canada began exactly five years ago today

Day 1 – Ucluelet to Port Alberni: Eastward Ho! A lot has happened since 2017. The five-year gap seems even wider than that because of the disruption of the covid pandemic, and I suspect that we’ve all begun to date everything from before and after Covid lockdowns. The long summer of 2017 is permanently fixed in […]

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