Andrew Bowie

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  • Jerome K Jerome one of many authors with a passion for cycling

    Jerome K Jerome one of many authors with a passion for cycling

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    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…

  • Touching the sea again at Honfleur

    Touching the sea again at Honfleur

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    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…

  • Cycling routes in France

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    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…

  • Cycling with a donkey in the Cévennes

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    In this extract from her blog, Catherine Pringle describes her tandem ride through the Cévennes. This blog post doesn’t appear in the final version of Peloton of Two, but it hints at an important decision that lies ahead for her in the story. The post title borrows from Robert Louis Stevenson’s book Travels with a…

  • Does the saying ‘You are what you eat’ also apply when you travel?

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    Does the saying ‘You are what you eat’ also apply when you travel? If this is true, then it’s a worrying thought. Because, when you travel, you sometimes have to eat whatever is available, even if you wouldn’t normally touch it at home. Not that the food is necessarily bad, it’s just not what you’re…

  • 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…