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
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
Any minute now, the Tour de France cyclists will be toiling over the Col de la Croix-Fry and passing the world’s most stereotypically delightful Alpine chalet-hotel, in the post-card prettiest part of Haute Savoie. Ugly ski resort development lies … Continue reading
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
@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
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
“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
Auberge Ferayola, Argentella, Corsica 00 33 4 95652525 www.ferayola.com I’ve moved this post to the hotel archive page … Continue reading
On the day of the mother of battles at Twickenham, a delightful contribution to Radio 4’s From Our Own Correspondent about Notre Dame du Rugby, a romanesque chapel in France’s south-western rugby heartland, near Grenade sur L’Adour. “We pray for … Continue reading