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Eurovelo 8: A Much Needed Update
I have received an email from Monica. Hi Andrew Next year starting 29th March I will be cycling from Lisbon to Athens using the Eurovelo Route 8, raising money for Camfed. I am organising the trip...
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Wet Weather: A Tale Of Two Months
On the BBC’s Countryfile yesterday afternoon, the weatherman shown here explained how April 2012 had been very wet indeed. He used this graph to explain that in southern England since January 2010,...
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Jack, Richard & The Eurovelos 5 & 15
An email has arrived from Jack who fancies cycling around Europe… He writes in blue, I write in red. Well, I am a teacher, albeit one with a sniffly nose today. And on the day that Francois Hollande...
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Eurovelo 15: The Rhine Cycle Route
The Rhine Cycle Route (or as it has been recently rebranded, the Eurovelo 15) has a sexy new website. Can a website be sexy? Actually, not going there… It’s worth a look (and you won’t feel obliged to...
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“Get Inspired To Bicycle Across Europe: Read Good Vibrations”
From the other side of the Atlantic, Mary Reynolds has written a review of Good Vibrations: Crossing Europe on a Bike Called Reggie for Examiner.com; “With a dry British wit (and some very wet days),...
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2nd July 2012: Home To Rome
A couple of weeks ago, James Mudd emailed me after having read Good Vibrations: Crossing Europe on a Bike Called Reggie telling me of his plans to do something similar; I am setting off with two...
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The Story Of Morgan Ruffini (To Be Continued…)
Here is Morgan Ruffini looking increasingly anxious about his journey along the Eurovelo 5. He set off a couple of days ago from London and is heading for Parma. And below, in his own words (which have...
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Morgan Ruffini & The Eurovelo 5: Metz
An update from Morgan who is cycling the Eurovelo 5; “Arrived in Metz yesterday from Verdun; got two days of rain from Reims-Verdun 120km; Verdun-Metz 66km and got completely wet so I decided to stay...
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Morgan Ruffini & The Eurovelo 5: Finished!
Morgan – see previous posts – has made it home to Parma. He writes; “Made it [to Parma] last week on Wed 25th, after 1470km and 19 days… I was late but glad to arrive [& was] welcomed by a …...
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Coming Full Circle: CyclingEurope.org Meets Eurovelo.com
It’s getting on for five years since I first came up with the idea of cycling to Italy during my long summer holiday from work as a teacher. At the time, in those initial weeks and months of frankly...
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Cycling Day 31: Castellane To Gréoux-les-Bains
Back in summer 2010 it took me 30 cycling days to get to Brindisi in the south of Italy from my home in southern England. It’s now cycling day 31 on this particular trip. I cycled 3,311km three years...
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Eurovelo 15 / The Rhine Cycle Route
I used to regularly post extracts from emails that I received on here but recently I seem to have stopped doing so. For no particular reason. It’s a delight to be asked about the routes that I have...
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Word, The Words & The Wordle
Just as with the first book, the first thing that I needed to do requires nothing more than a bit of patience and a lot of copying and I have spent several hours today doing just that. I am conscious …...
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The European Cyclists’ Federation Interview
The ECF have just published an interview with me where I discuss this summer’s cycle from Greece to Portugal along the rough line of the Eurovelo 8. The interview can be found on the ECF’s increasingly...
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Eurovelo 3 Plus: Back Of An Envelope Time…
I’ve just been looking at the descriptions and maps produced by the European Cyclists’ Federation (ECF) for the Eurovelo 3 and the portion of the Eurovelo 1 that would guide me from Santiago de...
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Cycling In Belgium
My journey across the continent continues… I have already posted planning notes on cycling through Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Germany. Here are my planning notes for Belgium after which only France...
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The Ortlieb Roller Classic (Plus) Pannier With QL2.1
Sorry, but it’s time to sound like a nerd. At least I’ve warned you… Panniers. If you didn’t look away at the end of the first paragraph, you’re likely to have do so now but for the few of you …...
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Cycling In France
So, after Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Germany and Belgium I arrive in France on my pre-Eurovelo 1/3 quest to have put at the very least a bit of thought into the planning of the route. Only one country to...
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Ditching The Rough Guides In Favour Of…
I would happily class myself as an enthusiastic early adopter of technology, especially when it comes to cycling. Back in 2009 when I cycled along the Pennine Cycleway as a shakedown of my skills as a...
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Cycling Day 4: Dos Hermanas To Sevilla
Click here to see the detailed statistics of today’s cycle I had to wait until nearly halfway through the Eurovelo 8 trip along the Mediterranean to intersect with my previous continental crossing – my...
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