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One world of cycle touring • Një botë e udhëtimeve me biçikletë • አንድ የሳይክል ጉብኝት ዓለም • عالم واحد من جولات الدراجات الهوائية • Հեծանվային շրջագայությունների մեկ աշխարհ • Velosiped turunun bir dünyası • সাইকেল ভ্রমণের এক জগত • Ziklo-ibilaldien mundu bat • Jedan svijet biciklističkih putovanja • Един свят на велосипедни обиколки • စက်ဘီး ကမ္ဘာလှည့်ခရီးတစ်ခု • Un món de cicloturisme • Usa ka kalibutan sa cycle touring • 一個自行車旅行的世界 • Jedan svijet biciklističkih putovanja • Jeden svět cykloturistiky • Én verden af ​​cykelture • Een wereld van fietstochten • Üks jalgrattamatkade maailm • Isang mundo ng cycle touring • Yksi pyöräilyn maailma • Un monde de cyclotourisme • ველოსიპედის ტურების ერთი სამყარო • Eine Welt der Radtouren • Ένας κόσμος ποδηλατικής περιήγησης • સાયકલ પ્રવાસની એક દુનિયા • Duniya ɗaya na yawon shakatawa • Hoʻokahi honua o ka huakaʻi kaʻapuni • עולם אחד של טיולי אופניי • साइकिल यात्रा की एक दुनिया • Ib lub ntiaj teb ntawm kev ncig mus ncig • A kerékpártúrák világa • Einn heimur hjólaferða • Otu ụwa nke njem okirikiri • Satu dunia tur sepeda • Domhan amháin de chamchuairt rothaíochta • Un mondo di cicloturismo • サイクルツーリングの1つの世界 • Siji jagad wisata siklus • ಸೈಕಲ್ ಪ್ರವಾಸದ ಒಂದು ಪ್ರಪಂಚ • Велотурдың бір әлемі • ពិភពលោកមួយនៃដំណើរទេសចរណ៍កង់ • 사이클 투어의 하나의 세계 • Yek cîhanek gera duçerxê • Велосипед саякаттарынын бир дүйнөсү • ໂລກຫນຶ່ງຂອງການທ່ອງທ່ຽວຮອບວຽນ • Viena velotūrisma pasaule • Vienas dviračių kelionių pasaulis • Еден свет на велосипедски турнеи • Tontolo iray amin’ny fitetezam-paritra • Satu dunia jelajah berbasikal • സൈക്കിൾ യാത്രയുടെ ഒരു ലോകം • Kotahi te ao o te haereere pahikara • सायकल टूरिंगचे एक विश्व • साइकल भ्रमणको एक संसार • En verden av sykkelturer • Dziko limodzi loyendera maulendo apaulendo • ଚକ୍ର ଭ୍ରମଣର ଗୋଟିଏ ଜଗତ • د سایکل سفر یوه نړۍ • یک دنیا گشت و گذار با دوچرخه • Jeden świat wycieczek rowerowych • Um mundo de passeios de bicicleta • ਸਾਈਕਲ ਟੂਰਿੰਗ ਦੀ ਇੱਕ ਦੁਨੀਆ • O lume a cicloturismului • Единый мир велотуров • Tasi le lalolagi o taamilosaga taamilosaga • Aon saoghal de chuairtean rothaireachd • Један свет бициклистичких путовања • Imwe nyika yekutenderera kutenderera • පාපැදි සංචාරයේ එක් ලෝකයක් • Jeden svet cykloturistiky • En svet kolesarskih tur • Hal adduun oo wareeg ah oo wareeg ah • Lefatše le leng la ho hahlaula ka libaesekele • Un mundo de cicloturismo • Ulimwengu mmoja wa utalii wa mzunguko • En värld av cykelturer • Як ҷаҳони сайёҳии велосипедронӣ • சைக்கிள் சுற்றுப்பயணத்தின் ஒரு உலகம் • సైకిల్ టూరింగ్ యొక్క ఒక ప్రపంచం • โลกแห่งการปั่นจักรยานท่องเที่ยว • Bir dünya bisiklet turu • Tigir gezelençleriniň bir dünýäsi • Один світ велосипедних турів • سائیکل ٹورنگ کی ایک دنیا • Velosiped sayohatlarining bir dunyosi • Un byd o deithio ar feic • Ihlabathi elinye lokhenketho lomjikelo • איין וועלט פון ציקל טורינג • Ọkan aye ti irin kiri yipo • Umhlaba owodwa wokuvakasha komjikelezo

Slow Masham: Otherness out of this world

  • 22 September 2023

More research for the Yorkshire Dales guidebook today, and several unexpected, quirky delights: an astronomical observatory with yet another solar system scale model; Yorkshire’s other most famous other brewery town; a bit of the Himalayas in the Dales; and another sculpture park with another miniature Stonehenge. After a very pleasant chat about bikes and touring...

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Slow Nidderdale: Gorging on views (hedgehogs on bananas)

  • 21 September 2023

Today’s fieldwork for the Yorkshire Dales guidebook update involved the world’s oldest sweetshop, a remote cul-de-sac pub, a hidden gem of a gorge, plenty of lovely scenery, and a hedgehog abducted by aliens. I cycled up Nidderdale from Harrogate via Ripley, a pretty village I’ve blogged about before. I enjoyed a pork pie from the...

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Slow Sedbergh: Chapter and verse on the book town

  • 8 September 2023

It may pose as Cumbria (or worse, now, ‘Westmorland and Furness’) but Sedbergh and environs was in Yorkshire up to 1974. So the 2016 extension of the Yorkshire Dales to include it was only righting a historical wrong. Anyway, I spent three days of fieldwork around Sedbergh for the Yorkshire Dales Slow Travel guidebook that...

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Market Weighton: Grand col du Tour de Bretagne

  • 5 September 2023

Stage 3 of the Tour of Britain went through Market Weighton today – a £2 bus ride on the X46 from my house, with bikes welcome on board – so I went along to enjoy the roadside spectating festivities. Watching the race flash past is a bit like an eclipse. There’s an hour or two...

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Slow Swaledale: Tales of trails, dales and ales

  • 28 August 2023

Swaledale is the most epic of the Yorkshire Dales. If Wensleydale is a Mozart concerto, and Wharfedale a Sibelius symphony, Swaledale is a Richard Strauss opera. An intense elemental-forces tale of love, conflict, separation, nine-child families and sheep. And cream teas with squirty cream. Our Yorkshire Farm, you could call it, or perhaps Unsere wunderschön...

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Whitton Island: Yorkshire’s Surtsey

  • 22 August 2023

In the early 1960s, a volcanic eruption off the Icelandic coast created a new island: Surtsey, which is still there today. Well, anything other countries can do, Yorkshire can do too. Just a bit flatter, especially the vowels. Until the 21st century, Yorkshire had no islands to speak of. And you know what Yorkshire folk...

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Slow Kirkby Stephen: Variations on a theme of Frank’s Bridge

  • 18 August 2023

En route home from yesterday’s ride to all England’s highest roads, I rode from Teesdale to Kirkby Stephen. With a couple of hours to kill before my train, I worked them to death, doing some quick research for the Slow Travel Guide to the Yorkshire Dales that I’m updating. I’d never ridden the B6276 road...

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Seven Summits: High achievements in the North Pennines

  • 17 August 2023

The six highest roads in England are close together in the North Pennines, south-east of Alston. Close enough to make an inviting, but strenuous, day ride. I couldn’t resist trying it out today, for a magazine article. The exact summit heights are, and therefore identity of the highest is, a matter for debate. Locals with...

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Slow Wensleydale 3: Say cheese (or squirrels)

  • 11 August 2023

Just a few places to tick off updating today: Askrigg, Bainbridge, Hawes. Just as well, as I had a ferocious headwind all day. I took another lovely little back road that was new to me – between Aysgarth and Cubeck via Thornton Rust, who sounds like a minor 1950s thespian. Fine views over Wensleydale, and...

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Slow Wensleydale 2: Cantering round Middleham

  • 10 August 2023

A circular ride today, Aysgarth – Bishopdale – Coverdale – Aysgarth, involving racehorses, Richard III, a grand castle, and Britain’s weirdest attraction. I breezed through some Bishopdale villages, including the comparatively metropolitan West Burton, with its fine green and friendly pubs and shops (most miraculously still going). It also has a lovely hidden waterfall I...

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This is the website of cycling writer Rob Ainsley. Read about End-to-End touring (and other rides) in York, Yorkshire, Britain, and round the world. Enjoy lively travel writing, lots of photos and plenty of humour.
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International End to Ends

Rides right across Britain, Ireland, England, Scotland, Wales, N Ireland, Isle of Man, Faroes, France, Belgium, Spain, Portugal, Austria, Liechtenstein, Poland, Slovakia, Latvia, Sri Lanka, Cuba, Taiwan…

Sri Lanka: No, that’s not me


Coast to Coasts

Britain side to side: C2C, Way of the Roses, Hadrian’s Wall, W2W, Trans Pennine Trail, Reivers… Plus rhyming rides: Barmouth to Yarmouth, Poole to Goole, Barrow to Jarrow, Mull to Hull…

Crosby Beach: Another Place, another ride


Yorkshire Ridings

Exploring Britain’s greatest county end to end, top to bottom, and side to side: from grand rivers, moors and dales to quirky curiosities in villages and towns, plus York route guides…

Filey Brigg: Check your brakes


Other Rides

Route research all round Britain, plus the King Alfred way; Spain’s Camino de Santiago; South America; every place called Bath in the world; riding the Monopoly board; Quirky London, and more…

Ipanema Beach, Rio: Cue for a thong


Writings

Some of my published pieces (books, columns, talks, podcasts, fun stuff mostly about everyday cycling and cycle-touring) and recent works for classical guitar…

Dumfries & Galloway: Name of the place, not the cyclists

Recent pages

Latvia End to End
Index page for my latest cross-country ride, from Jul 2023

Portugal End to End
Index page for my cross-country ride from May 2023

Austria End to End
Index page for my cross-country ride from Oct 2022

King Alfred Way
Index page for the over… I mean, highly-rated route, Jun 2022

Recent Posts

  • Slow Masham: Otherness out of this world 22 September 2023
  • Slow Nidderdale: Gorging on views (hedgehogs on bananas) 21 September 2023
  • Slow Sedbergh: Chapter and verse on the book town 8 September 2023

Random Posts

  • Quirky London 5: The oldest shopfront5 February 2010
    Where is it? 56 Artillery Lane, in higgledy-piggledy back streets off Spitalfields …
  • Spain 4: Monesterio to Mérida11 April 2019
    A longish day of N630 spadework in sun and headwind, with punctures …
  • Loch Tay 1: Dull, twinned with Boring17 August 2017
    A few days researching routes around lovely Loch Tay up in Perthshire.

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