Tag: cycle touring
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Jerome K Jerome one of many authors with a passion for cycling
On a walk through Ewelme last weekend I passed the grave of Jerome K Jerome. Jerome is best known for Three men in a boat which has never been out of print since publication in 1889. He also wrote Three men on the bummel, which follows the same three characters from the boat book as…
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Touching the sea again at Honfleur
Three months into her tandem journey around France, Catherine Pringle reaches the English Channel when she arrives at Honfleur in Normandy. It’s late summer now and the weather is turning colder. She is tempted to mark the return to the coast with a symbolic dip in the Seine Estuary. But, as ever with Catherine, food…
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Cycling routes in France
I was asked recently about the cycling routes in France that I have travelled and thought it would be helpful to describe them here. Peloton of Two is a work of fiction. The route followed by Catherine and her various companions was created especially to complement the story. It’s a perfectly workable Tour de France…
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Does the idea of a cycle touring musical belong strictly in La La Land?
Hollywood is in love with musicals again and, if La La Land is anything to go by, song and dance movies could be showing at a cinema near you for some time to come. It’s easy to understand why. In an increasingly troubled and turbulent world, escaping for a few hours into a simpler and…