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Amsterdam: Scenes from a cycle city

Posted on 26 April 20228 May 2022 by Rob Ainsley

Returning to England from Slovakia, I had a final layover in Amsterdam between overnight bus and Eurostar. I spent a very happy five hours in the chilly sunshine exploring the centre easily and efficiently, thanks to the city’s cycle path system. With all those cyclists intent on getting somewhere, things can be hectic in the…

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Prague: A1 time along the Vltava

Posted on 25 April 202229 April 2022 by Rob Ainsley

I had a couple of days spare after finishing the Slovakia End to End, so I went to Prague. I had no plan, but I had a bike, and that’s all you need. The city is justly feted as one of Europe’s most elegant and visitable, and the cheap but excellent beer is a welcome…

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Chepstow: Wye oh Wye

Posted on 27 March 202229 March 2022 by Rob Ainsley

A bit of informal route research today round the Wye Valley. I’d come here intending to ride through the recently opened (2021) Tidenham Tunnel, the vital link in the lovely five-mile Wye Valley Greenway. I started with a sortie across the (old) Severn Bridge and back, over its dramatic 1.6km cyclable crossing (including the Aust…

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Herefordshire 3: Golden opportunities

Posted on 26 March 202229 March 2022 by Rob Ainsley

A lazy day of exploring the hilly country west of Hereford today, around the Golden Valley. I headed down the railtrail south from the town and struck west into the uplands, overlooked dramatically by Hay Bluff. (On the other side is the awesome Gospel Pass, which I rode on my Welsh End to End in…

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Herefordshire 2: Ley Lines and Elgar

Posted on 25 March 202231 March 2022 by Rob Ainsley

On 30 Jun 1921, Alfred Watkins made an astonishing discovery while out walking in Herefordshire. He realised that any two points of ancient, mystical significance – Stonehenge or Lord’s, say – were always connected by a straight line. He called these ‘ley lines’, and detailed his insights in his classic 1925 book The Old Straight…

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Herefordshire 1: Here in black and white

Posted on 24 March 202230 March 2022 by Rob Ainsley

Herefordshire’s tourist people are pushing the county’s cycling trails, and it’s easy to see why, even when your eyesight is as bad as mine. Fans of everything from cider to ley-lines to classical music to picture-postcard villages have inviting routes to explore. (Three of those particularly appeal to me: perhaps you can guess which.) The…

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Wild Swims 2: Ingleton to Hawes

Posted on 17 March 202220 March 2022 by Rob Ainsley

A day of headwinds and three hours of rain. I should have expected that from the BBC weather forecast. Because that had told me it would be breezy and sunny with a brief shower. But I did the research I needed to, though the challenging weather did put me through my paces. Paces up Buttertubs,…

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Wild Swims 1: Morecambe to Ingleton

Posted on 15 March 202220 March 2022 by Rob Ainsley

I’m very keen on wild swimming, so long as I don’t have to enter any water to do so. Anyway, that said, I’m doing a recce of my next route for a magazine article, on wild swims. The idea is to come up with a route that’s not only a very good ride of one…

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Sandringham: Right royal ride

Posted on 12 January 202217 January 2022 by Rob Ainsley

I’ve a soft spot for royalty. It’s a bog in the North Yorkshire Moors… I may not be a fan of hereditary privilege, but I did enjoy cycling through Sandringham Estate today, and visiting an unusual disused royal station. I was in King’s Lynn for three nights, for reasons too complex to relate here. But…

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Holme Fen: Lowest of the low

Posted on 11 January 202215 January 2022 by Rob Ainsley

‘England’s Dead Sea’ is in the fens just south of Peterborough. Granted, it’s not quite as low down – minus 2.75m, compared to minus 430m – but it’s the furthest-down dry land you can cycle on in the UK. It’s the country at its most negative, except perhaps for the comments below local newspaper Facebook…

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