Andrew Bowie

Category: Writing

  • Books about cycle touring

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    This is my own list of books about cycle touring. They’ve been particularly helpful for researching holidays in the past, particularly in the 1990s when libraries were the main source for holiday research. An I refered to a number of them when researching the route for Peloton of Two.

  • The surest way to know if you love someone

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    The surest way to know if you love someone or hate them is to travel with them. If you really want to know what someone’s like, there’s no better way to find out than to go on a journey with them. Preferably a long, slow journey, one that requires you to work together to reach…

  • What type of cycle tourist is Catherine Pringle?

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    Two weeks into her tandem journey around France, Catherine Pringle has survived the initial shock of travelling long-distances by bicycle. She is already physically stronger, and had begun to change mentally too. Catherine has, in her own words, ‘stopped being a tourist on a bicycle and begun my transformation into a cycle tourist’. The next…