Globetrotters Club talk Sat 4 Dec 2021

Here’s a list of the places mentioned in my talk at the London Globetrotters Club on Saturday 4 December 2021, How to cycle abroad without leaving Britain.

*Lake Maggiore, Italy. Oh, hang on, no, Claerwen Reservoir in Wales*

• Geneva (near Aberaeron, Wales) to Florence (Stoke-on-Trent) (blog of trip)

*Also Perth, Sydney, Toronto, Moscow, Dresden, Hollywood, New York, Boston*…

*The Great Wall of Ch… ah, wait a minute, no, Hadrian’s Wall at Birdoswald*

• Aysgarth Falls, N Yorks (‘Iguazu’)
• Hadrian’s Wall (‘Great Wall of China’)
• Cheddar Gorge (‘Grand Canyon’)
• Blackpool Tower (‘Eiffel Tower’)
• Great Stone, Bentham, Yorks/Lancs (‘Uluru’)
• Brighton seafront (‘Ipanema beach’)
• Taj Mahal restaurant, Bournemouth (‘Taj Mahal’)

*The unmistakable sight of Mont Vent… um, actually it’s Great Dun Fell near Kirkby Stephen*

• Thames Path, Kew; Llandudno promenade; Great Glen (‘Danube Path’)
• Great Dun Fell, Kirkby Stephen (‘Mont Ventoux’)
• Bealach na Bà, Lochcarron, Scotland; Hardknott Pass, Boot, Cumbria (‘Stelvio Pass’)
• London’s cycleways, Westminster; Tyne Tunnel, South Shields (‘Dutch cycle infra’)
• Golden Road, Hebridean Way, Scotland (‘Norwegian fjords’)
• North York Moors; Lake Semerwater, N Yorks; Ae, Dumfries (‘Cuba’s empty roads’)
• Humber Bridge (‘Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco’)
• Lôn Las Cymru / Welsh End to End (‘NZ Tour Aotearoa’)

*Ministry of Silly Walks, Bilton-in-Ainsty, North Yorkshire*

• Holy Island causeway, Berwick
• Pontcysyllte Aqueduct, Llangollen
• Post Office Slip, Easingwold
• Cycle racks, Scottish Parliament Building, Edinburgh
• Sculpture, Penistone, Yorks
• Traffic Light Tree, Billingsgate, London
• Graffitied gritbox, Clun, Salop
• Dull, Perthshire
• Respect road sign, Ambleside, Cumbria
• Damaged road safety sign, Bunbury, Cheshire
• Silly walks sign, Bilton-in-Ainsty, Yorks
• HAM SANDWICH sign, Ham, Kent