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 […]
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 […]
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