Black Dog Bicycling

Nick kindly dropped me off on the main road at Favro and after just a few initial wobbles I made my way through Umbria with the sun beati...

Now here was an exciting moment. Having set off from Hadrian's wall months before I was finally at the beating heart of the Roman Empire...

Staying with Nick and Simona was like stepping into a Rossellini film. I really can't thank them enough for their seemingly inexhaustibl...

Setting off at 11:00 after a hugely frustrating morning I resolved not to allow my momentary misfortune to divert me. Yes I had been robbed...

Imagine the scene if you will: A 28 year old man in his underpants is running down a dark beech before dawn shouting garbled phrases from a...

I was having fun negotiating the Ligurian hills on the coast road east from Genoa on my way to Pisa. Hard hills in baking heat rewarded...

**Warning may contain multiple rhetorical questions read at your own risk(of annoyance)** 04:00. Even in the pre-dawn gloom Maggiore lo...