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France On Two Wheels

by Adam Ruck

France On Two Wheels

CONTENTS

  • Home
  • Introduction
  • Route 1
    Lake Geneva to Caen
    • Dinner with Marc Meneau
    • Guédelon
  • Route 2
    Massif Central (Loire 1)
    • The serial killer hoteliers
    • Troisgros
    • His finest hour
  • Route 3
    La Bastide to Arcachon
    • Roquefort
    • Yquem
  • Route 4
    Biarritz to La Charité-sur-Loire
    • A pelota champion
    • Aymeric Picaud – the pilgrim’s guide
  • Route 5
    Moulins to St-Brévin (Loire 2)
    • Hornblower on the Loire
    • Turner’s Loire
  • Route 6
    Paris to Avignon
    • The recipe road
    • Wine tasting in Tain L’Hermitage
  • Alsace Tour
  • Corsica
  • Brittany Tour
  • St Moritz on two wheels (and the train)
  • The Western Front
  • Ridgeway Rides
  • Travel Notes, Updates, Feedback
  • Hotel Archive
  • Contact Adam
  • Adam’s Blog
    • All Blog Posts
    • Skiing Posts

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Travels with a Brompton

Posted on April 26, 2022 by adamruck

At about the time I was engaged on a series of long bike rides through France I met a man at a drinks party who had some involvement in the Brompton business. He asked me if I had ever considered … Continue reading →

Posted in cycling holidays, France | Tagged Adam Ruck, Brompton, Cevennes, France cycle touring, Mont Ventoux, Robert Louis Stevenson, Sue Birley, Travels with a donkey

Let’s hear it for audible

Posted on July 4, 2021 by adamruck

It seems that today is not independence day, after all, but thanksgiving day, brought forward by half a year. Up and down the land, those fortunate enough to survive lockdown have been out and about, singing a Fleetwood Mac song … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Adam Ruck, audible, audio books, book club

Women’s Day

Posted on March 8, 2021 by adamruck
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Did Mrs Le Blond found a Ladies Ski Club?

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Posted in Skiing, Skiing History, Switzerland | Tagged Adam Ruck, Elizabeth Le Blond, Fred Burnaby, Isabella Straton, Switzerland, women alpinists | Leave a reply

A piste of history

Posted on January 7, 2021 by adamruck

The first British Ski Championship, Jan 6/7 1921

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Posted in Skiing, Skiing History, Switzerland | Tagged Adam Ruck, lauberhorn, Ski racing, Skiing History, Switzerland, Wengen

Le Carré: ‘far and away the best ski cartoonist in the business’

Posted on December 16, 2020 by adamruck

“I have only ever written by hand. The lapsed graphic artist in me actually enjoys drawing the words.”  John le Carré, The Pigeon Tunnel (2016) In all the tributes that have proliferated over the last 48 hours, I have neither … Continue reading →

Posted in Skiing, Switzerland | Tagged Adam Ruck, David Cornwell, DHO, Downhill Only, John le Carré, Ski racing, Wengen

An Everest in West Oxfordshire

Posted on November 7, 2020 by adamruck

It is a not unusual occurrence, while I toil up Uffington’s White Horse Hill on what I refer to as my daily mortification, for me to cross paths with another cyclist, not once but three times: twice – an overtake … Continue reading →

Posted in cycling holidays, Oxfordshire | Tagged Adam Ruck, cycling, everesting white horse hill, Oxfordshire, sean ballard, uffington, Uffington White Horse

Gone for a swim

Posted on September 5, 2020 by adamruck

When I learnt from http://doggolf.info/ that Wales is among the least dog-friendly golfing corners of what for the moment, however inappropriately, we still call the United Kingdom, I felt an extra surge of pride in the lovely course and excellent … Continue reading →

Posted in golf, holidays, Wales | Tagged Aberdovey, aberdovey golf, Adam Ruck, Golf, Wales

Up the Downs

Posted on June 13, 2020 by adamruck

My base camp at the foot of the Lambourn Downs (north side) is well placed for bike rides up to the Ridgeway – short bursts of exertion that raise the pulse rate in beautiful surroundings.  There are more than a … Continue reading →

Posted in cycling holidays, Oxfordshire | Tagged Adam Ruck, Bishopstone, cycling, Icknield Way, Oxfordshire, The Ridgeway, Uffington White Horse

Golf and covid: the new abnormal

Posted on May 10, 2020 by adamruck

At least the lockdown spared us the torture of golf. Tasting an unfamiliar hint of serenity in the mixed salad of my mood, I can only attribute it to an absence of missed tiddlers and sliced drives onto the railway … Continue reading →

Posted in France, golf | Tagged Adam Ruck, corona virus, covid, France, Golf

Time to rediscover old favourites

Posted on March 3, 2020 by adamruck

A PR contacts me, having been alerted by google to an article of mine that has just appeared on the Telegraph Travel website, mentioning a client of hers, Le Touquet.  She isn’t a subscriber to Telegraph Premium or whatever it’s … Continue reading →

Posted in travel journalism | Tagged Adam Ruck, BBC Radio 4, Henry Priestman, mark tully, something understood, Telegraph Travel

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