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 Covid and lockdowns. The long summer of 2017 is permanently fixed in my […]
I’m honoured to have been asked to make a video for the London Mozart Players orchestra website and YouTube channel – it’s a virtual Uke Club video for all the family to join in with, and that includes you! The LMP have been running a weekly Family Friday spot, where the experience of playing and […]
The response to the eBook version of CROSSING CANADA: Incidents Of Travel On A Bike has been so encouraging, and so many people have asked me if I could create a paperback edition for those that haven’t delved into kindle yet, that I have been working flat-out on getting it into production for the last […]
Even sooner than hoped, my new ebook has been published TODAY on the Amazon Kindle store. Simply click below to have a look, and maybe even to download a copy… If you’re new to eBooks, please feel free to click on the link below to find out how to download the Kindle app for any […]
I’m delighted to announce that my new eBook, CROSSING CANADA : Incidents Of Travel On A Bike will be available to buy very shortly on the Amazon Kindle store. Many months – in fact years – in the making, the book is a view-from-the-handlebars account of my adventures during Canada’s 150th anniversary summer. Follow the amazing three […]
I last spoke with you all at Copenhagen Airport, where I was awaiting my connecting flight back to Heathrow. I explained about the problems we had leaving Hong Kong (which many of you had read about in the news overnight), thanked you all, and signed off, fulling expecting a dull hour or so flying back […]
It’s 6.30am and I’m at Copenhagen airport awaiting my connecting flight to London, having had no problem leaving troubled Hong Kong. As soon as my phone picked up a signal, it was deluged with pop-up notifications from the South China Morning Post and other sources that have been such a feature of our time in […]
Today is my farewell day, after a fantastic month of plying back and forth in the South China Sea. Thanks so much for your company along the way. I was considering one last route to round things off, and toyed for a while with the idea of a long, high-speed trip across to Macau or […]
Without a ferry in sight, the MTR delivered me to Tai Wai Station, Sha Tin, to try out a bike route recommended by the hotel, a few Hong Kong websites, and my cousin Robert! It runs for about fourteen miles right around Tolo Harbour, completely on cycle lanes, ending on an island in the Plover […]
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