A ride less ordinary
Adventure Biking & the art of Going Slow & Getting lost
About Me
I’m a cyclist. No surprises there. When I was 10 I wrote that happiness was cycling down hill and feeling the wind in my hair. Shortly afterwards I failed my cycling proficiency test; an inauspicious start to my life on two wheels. Undeterred,…
Back Story
In June 2015, I found myself at the end of a ‘rolling’ six-month contract (in the Oil industry) which had rolled its last. With no prospect of renewal and, more importantly, no desire to look for more work in the corporate world, I was…
Maps!
It seems that even though I willingly gave up my geological career, I can’t give up making maps! I have bumped into a few retired geo’s who suffer in the same way! My latest adventure is to study an MSc in Geographical Information Systems…
Midges, Grace & Wild Camping
This is a story about one of my early adventures, in the days when cycling was a minority interest, when the internet and mobile phones weren’t even distant dreams, fuel was something you put in your car and GPS was when you had more…
All about the bike
‘It’s all about the bike’ ……. an often-quoted phrase in the cycling world, which I happen to think is an over simplification. This blog post, however, is unashamedly all about the bike because I have just bought a new one. It’s been a long time coming.
A Girls Own Adventure
My recent cycling trip to Sri Lanka was peppered with ‘firsts’. It was the first time I had planned an independent road-bike trip outside of Europe, it was also the first time that I hadn’t booked accommodation in advance, and the first time I…
A ride less ordinary 