I had no plans for the weekend, but the forecast was for sunny skies. That idyllic English summer day that occurs so rarely! So whatever I chose to do it was going to be outside. I chose to bike the South Downs Way. The South Downs Way is a long distance off-road route of 100 [...]
During my ride through Africa, I also spent two weeks paddling down the upper reaches of the Niger River in Guinea in a wooden pirogue with fellow cyclist Lars Bengtsson. This was definitely one of the highlights of the journey and a truly amazing experience. It opened my eyes to an alternative way to travel [...]
The Polar Museum at the Scott Polar Research Institute in Cambridge holds a unique collection of artefacts, journals, paintings, photographs, clothing equipment and maps illustrating polar exploration, history and science. The institute was founded in 1920, in memory of Captain Robert Falcon Scott and his four companions who died on their return journey from the [...]
Over the upcoming weekends I shall be indulging in my less active interests, namely books and film. Books – The Hay Festival Well known in the literary world is the Hay Festival, held annually in the pretty Welsh town of Hay-on-Wye. For a small town it has an unusually large proportion of bookshops – about [...]
Easter is more like a holiday than a weekend. The plan was to meet up with friends and family on the other side of the country. Normally I would drive with a car packed with biking and hiking gear. Instead, I cycled there. After a quick look on a map and a search for off-road [...]
The Peddars Way is one of the National Trail’s long distance paths. It is 46 miles long, running in an almost straight line from Knettishall Heath in Suffolk to Holme-next-the-sea on the north Norfolk coast. Having spent my formative years just a few miles from the start of this path, and having regularly walked my [...]
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