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!), […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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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