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An Unlikely Love Affair
Published in MMM magazine 2019 We called her Cecilia, for no better reason than that her number plate began with the letters CEC. She was a supremely graceless white plastic box, perched on top of four preposterously small and narrow wheels, and welded to a van cab. There was a double bed over the cab…
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Eid in Siwa
Winner of The Daily Telegraph ‘Just Back’ travel Writing competition, 2011 No-one mentioned the donkey, or the nearby mosque, when we booked our rooms for the Eid weekend. The Imam, his voice amplified by a loudspeaker attached to the wall beneath our window, and his four-legged chorister tethered in a stable across the narrow alley,…
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Welcome to my Cycling Blogs!
If you want to get started straight away, just choose from the drop-down menu and click on each photo to open the daily blog. Days appear in reverse order, so if you’re catching up and would like to start from the beginning, you’ll need to scroll through to the bottom. Team Trixie & Team Bernard…
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Switzerland End to End 2025 – Day 9
Day 9: The Last Leg, Morges to the border, 70.5k, 370m climbed 31/7/2025 And that’s a wrap on Team Bernard’s end-to-end of Switzerland. To reach this peaceful wooded spot in the far west of the country, we have pedalled 561.2k and climbed 8,134m over nine days. You’ll notice the disappointing absence of a large sign…
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Switzerland End to End 2025 – Day 8
Day 8: Fribourg to Morges, on Lake Geneva, 73k, 780m climbed 30/7/2025 It was a beautiful day for a bike ride, though I was a little nervous about what lay ahead. Because while yesterday we’d enjoyed the reassurance of a marked cycle route, today we would be entirely subject to the whims of my grumpy…
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Switzerland End to End 2025 – Day 7
Day 7: Interlaken to Fribourg, 79.4k, 994m climbed (or 1,200m according to Harry’s Garmin) 29/7/2025 Since our last report, Team Midge (sans Bernard and, er, Midge) have, in the words of the UEFA tagline, reached ‘the summit of emotions’. How else to describe our reaction to the Lionesses’ stunning victory – by penalty shootout no…
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