Tag/category: cycling
Totally awesome cycling weekend!
And so begins the story of a 100 mile cycling, and 25 pint cider-drinking, weekend in Somerset. (as embarked upon by a bunch of exercise-shy musos…) FRIDAY Olly and I — due to one having a proper job and the other having a guilty conscience about not having a proper job — decided we couldn’t leave Bristol at lunchtime with …
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Rotto
Go to Rottnest Island (“Rotto”), it’s lovely to cycle round (everyone said). And hilly! Very effing hilly! No one mentioned that. Quite a surprise in a country that’s predominantly flat. I did a full circuit of it (about 20k) and about half way round realised that I’d left Toby’s cycle helmet on a beach at the far end. I completed …
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Easter in Perth
“He wants to speak to me at 7 o’clock on the morning. What is he a giant lark?” That was Toby’s Easter morning greeting, rousing me from my slumber — not unrepresentative of our exchanges of the past two weeks which have been almost exclusively in Blackadder or Fry and Laurie quotations. The early rise was in aid of singing …
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