This Summer Millie joined a number of other Riderz and Scottish Cycling for their assault on the UEC Youth MTB Championships in Pila, Italy. This is her story… First of all I want to say thanks to everyone who helped get me to this competition and everyone who helped me Read more…
Fiona Campbell of Campbell Bowen Works is our favourite white witch. She doesn’t describe herself as a witch but we’ve both been to physios, chiropractors and faith healers to try and fix our various back problems to no avail – yet Fiona has managed to sort us both out and keeps Read more…
Switzerland is possibly the most expensive place on Earth to which we are responding by trying to forget that we know how many Swiss Francs are in a pound. We should have remembered from our last visit when our friend took us to a rather nice cocktail bar in Zurich Read more…
So day 3 and we are re-entering our holiday routine of me waking an hour or so before the girls then going out to explore and buy croissants. The girls are not one for mornings and I normally return to wherever we are staying to find them still in bed and Read more…
Breakfast at Georg’s was ace, he’s everything his profile promised, a fascinating friendly guy who provides a lovely breakfast with AMAZING views of the Rhine… For once, thanks in no small part to Georg’s copious amounts of toast, we get an early start and we fair zoom through the Ks, Read more…
We try to make sure that everyone gets a day on the holiday where they get to choose what to do and today is Millie’s turn so we are going to a tree top Parcour (Go-Ape). As this is high season we booked it weeks ago from the UK which Read more…
The world can clearly be split in to cycling nations and non-cycling nations. Scotland I’m afraid to say isn’t a cycling nation (yet) – bits are. The islands are great with cars and bikes seemingly co-existing peacefully, sharing the road space happily but as you move towards the bigger conurbations it Read more…
In which there was very nearly a KIDNAP and weapons were fashioned. It is Steim am Rhein which is the town in these parts which is famous for being pretty but we didn’t think it prettier than any of it’s neighbours. In fact Uberlingen is our favourite place so far. Read more…
So a fond farewell to the Hotel Ochson and off to Friedrichshafen – home of the mighty Zeppelin. Suzy’s maps are working excellently, occasionally we have resort to GPS as a back, especially in the cities, but by and large we aren’t putting a wheel wrong (alhough we really need Read more…
As the girls sleep later than I do we tend to fall into a routine where I go out first thing in the morning to buy breakfast while they are still sleeping. I really enjoy it to be honest, there’s something exciting about meandering round foreign towns when most people Read more…
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