Tag: travel
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Why Hemingway decided you should never go on trips with anyone you do not love.
Journeys don’t always work out the way we think they will. When F. Scott Fitzgerald invited Ernest Hemingway on a short trip from Paris to Lyon, Hemingway jumped at the chance. Fitzgerald was the more established novelist at the time and Hemingway saw it as a chance for two writers to spend some agreeable time…
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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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My favourite travel books
This is a list of my favourite travel books. There are many more and I’ll add them over time. And there’s a small degree of crossover with my list of cycle touring books.
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Books about cycle touring
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.
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The surest way to know if you love someone
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…