• Tiroler Alpen Bike Challenge

    Tiroler Alpen Bike Challenge

    Race time. It’s a familiar feeling; one that my body has been craving for too long. I have neglected the competitive addiction, one that must be sated for everything to seem right in the world. The internal feelings are unmistakable; restless legs, concern for every unit of energy spent, and food constantly consumed. The external […]

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  • Val Di Sole

    Val Di Sole

    The drive from Garda to Val di Sole was immensely beautiful. The road from the lake quickly darted up a side valley, and we found ourselves in the surrounds of huge forested slopes. Big clouds again aided the definition of the contours, and it wasn’t long until we’d climbed up through Madonna di Campiglio and […]

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  • Giro Della Monte Baldo

    Giro Della Monte Baldo

    “well how far is it?” Is always a difficult question for a ride that I’ve never done before, but my enthusiasm prevented me from outright admitting I hadn’t the faintest idea. Instead I answered with “the map says…” And we set off to ride around the towering hulk that it Monte Baldo. Luckily for me, […]

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  • Malcesine

    Malcesine

    We awoke to a different day. Silence. Only broken by the brief buzz of an early car heading through the tunnel along the lake. I pull open the curtains to see the sun breaking between clouds and sending jets of warmth onto the water; transforming the lake from lagoon black into alpine blue. We’d given […]

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  • Water in the air

    Water in the air

    We arrived in Limone Sul Garda late last night. The drive down from Bruneck was a bit longer than we had expected, and we didn’t really pay too much attention to our last-minute booked hotel, other than for the fact it was just a little difficult to find. The town seems to consist entirely of […]

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  • Where to first?

    Where to first?

    First task for any road trip is to buy a map, but normally this is preceded by working out where on earth we might be going. To cover all eventualities we headed over to the book shop and had a browse around until we walked out with ‘central Europe’ plastered over a huge piece of […]

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  • Treading water

    Treading water

    Sometimes its hard to work out what happened in the time between last seeing my girlfriend. I have a record of it right here on this site, and its useful to look back and think about what I actually occupied myself with whilst so much of my mental capacity was taken up with waiting. It […]

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  • Bike house

    Bike house a video by Chris Baddick on Flickr.

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  • Birthday ride

    Birthday ride

    A pleasing twist of fate decided that today in Austria was a Feiertag, or a public holiday that just so happened to fall on my birthday. A day off work and celebrating to be done too. Perfect. Although I don’t have much idea how Ascension is supposed to be celebrated in the catholic world, I […]

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  • Basel

    Basel

    My traveling, although extensive, isn’t exactly varied. I have seen so many beautiful places on my way around the world, but most of them fit within a reasonably narrow  range of geography and culture. Most places I go are mountainous; just small communities that have sprouted up because of, or in spite of  their location. […]

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