Day 18 – Bassano to Medicine Hat. Another day of immensely long, straight roads, this time mostly in bright hot sun all day. From the comfort of my armchair at home, I spent a lot of time thinking about the Rockies, and I just wondered what on earth this kind of riding would be like…..well, […]
Day 17 – Into the Badlands (Calgary to Bassano). Today was the day where instead of looking up at the immense scale of the terrain, as I have been doing right through Vancouver Island and then the Rockies, I looked out into the vast rolling space of endless prairie, known as the Canadian Badlands. Today’s […]
Day 16 – Canmore to Calgary. I was very sad to say goodbye to Stewart and Gill, who have made the first two weeks of my adventure so memorable and enjoyable. Their hospitality and generosity have been unbelievable, and I only hope to get back to this part of Canada again before too long, possibly […]
June 12th 1817 Germany – Karl Drais is often credited with having come up with the original design, which means it’s the 200th birthday of the bicycle! To mark this occasion, I’d like to share with you all one of the best bits of one of Jaques Tati’s finest films, Jour de Fete. Tati is the […]
Day 15 – Rest Day in Canmore. One day later than planned, today I finally got my rest day. I had to reduce the planned mileage a bit, first for heat and then for cold, and ended up arriving here last night. A fantastic view from my attic window this morning at Gill’s stepfather Noel’s […]
Day 14 – Kicking Horse , Yoho to Canmore. Today was special to me because it marked the point at which I could say I had cycled right through the Rockies. From my end point today, Canmore, the road goes mostly downhill to my next stop, Calgary. It’s also special because I’m back with my […]
Day 13 – Golden to Kicking Horse Campground, Yoho National Park. I had a lovely message this morning from Jane Lodge, FOTB and Head of Music at Beechwood Park School,,: “There are comments made every day from the pupils, asking where you are now, so I’ve put up a map of Canada on the Charity […]
Day 12 – Canyon Hot Springs to Golden. Today was one of the better days that I’ve ever had on a bike. Starting with the weather, which gradually got better and better as the day went on, and then there was the scenery….what could prepare you for the scale and grandeur of the Rockies? My […]
Day 11 – Sicamous to Canyon Hot Springs. Having started to wish that the heat, though lovely and summery, would break, this morning it obliged. I was sent scurrying about collecting valuables in the downpour and setting up under the campground gazebo to wait out the worst of it. Once it quietened down, I was […]
Day 10 – The Collector’s Item. Rather than attempt to redo the whole blog (I do have to get some cycling in, after all), instead I thought I’d do a sort of speed dating version, just pics and the odd comment So, I left Brant and Dagmars’ early… I raced a taxi-ing private jet at Kelowna […]
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