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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

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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

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

More on golf and cycling

Posted on January 11, 2014 by adamruck

Serendipity?  An idle moment in Wantage, and upon what should I chance but Darwin On The Green, keenly – I am tempted to say insultingly – priced at £3.50.   This is an anthology of essays brought together by HJ Weaver … Continue reading →

Posted in cycling holidays, golf | Tagged Adam Ruck, Bernard Darwin, Camilo Villegas, cycling, Golf, macedonia

Golf and cycling

Posted on December 3, 2013 by adamruck

  In idle moments I have often googled golf and bicycle (or cycling).  Almost nothing comes up, apart from a virtual debate about whether cycling is the new golf, the motion being that Masters of the Universe now do their … Continue reading →

Posted in cycling holidays, France, golf, Wales | Tagged Aberdovey, Adam Ruck, Bernard Darwin, cycling, France, Golf

The only way is ethics

Posted on September 6, 2013 by adamruck

Waiting for the article to appear is a difficult time, especially when you have gone to bed with a publication for the first time, as was the case with me and The Sunday Times Travel Magazine. After the coupling, polite … Continue reading →

Posted in cycling holidays, France, writing and editing | Tagged Adam Ruck, Alsace, auberge de l'ill, cycling, France, storks

To Italy by bike mostly with Eric Newby

Posted on August 29, 2013 by adamruck

Made my annual visit to the Dyfi Valley Bookshop in Machynlleth in case any of the 100-odd novels written by my great aunt Berta have fetched up there in the last 12 months; or (less likely, since he is much … Continue reading →

Posted in cycling holidays, France, French hotels, Uncategorized, writing and editing | Tagged Adam Ruck, cycling, Eric Newby, France

Alpe d’Huez: la montée mythique

Posted on July 18, 2013 by adamruck

So … just a short stage today for our cyclist heroes: a mere 168km to Alpe d’Huez finishing with 30km of ascent in two bits, totalling 2500 vertical metres of uphill at an average gradient of about 8% with 42 … Continue reading →

Posted in cycling holidays, France, Skiing, Uncategorized | Tagged Adam Ruck, Alpe d'Huez, cycling, France, Tour de France

Embrun Solaire

Posted on July 17, 2013 by adamruck

@rosiesimpson writes rather a brilliant blog in the form – for the moment at least – of a wine guide to the Tour de France.  I haven’t read enough of it to know how she handled the time trial at … Continue reading →

Posted in cycling holidays, France, Skiing | Tagged Adam Ruck, cycling, Embrun, France, Les Orres, Skiing, Tour de France

Crocophile years

Posted on July 17, 2013 by adamruck

As any fule kno, our world divides into two kinds of people: crocophiles and crocophobes.  It is not a division down the middle, because the angry mass of phobes vastly outnumbers the oppressed minority of philes.  Croc Monsieur I once … Continue reading →

Posted in cycling holidays, France, Uncategorized | Tagged Adam Ruck, crocs, cycling, France

Watching the Tour de France, or not

Posted on July 5, 2013 by adamruck

“A big picnic, with a cycling race attached,” is how Nadia of @foothillsfrance describes the Tour de France, from the spectator’s point of view.  In July 2011 we met up with the Tour on our way back from cycling down … Continue reading →

Posted in cycling holidays, France | Tagged Adam Ruck, cycling, France, Tour de France

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