Shetland 2024? / Cycle Camping UK: Can You Help? If you happened to listen to the interview that I did with Talk Radio Europe on Friday (see previous post), I mentioned in passing future long-distance cycling trips. Should I revisit the aborted plan to cycle the length of Japan? Perhaps in 2025? And this year? I noted that I had a couple of friends who are (separately) cycling in Shetland. They have been posting some fantastic pictures online and I hope that Anne and Tim don't mind me reposting a few of their pictures here on CyclingEurope.org.
https://cyclingeurope.org/2024..../05/19/shetland-2024

Le Grand Tour… En España, Part 3 Does it ever worry you that you forget things that, really, you should remember? I've just had one of those moments. I searched CyclingEurope.org to see if I posted anything about an interview that did with Talk Radio Europe shortly before setting off on the 2015 cycle from Tarifa to Nordkapp. I was in southern Spain at the time and I went down to the studios of the radio station in Estepona for a chat about the upcoming trip. It's not something that I seem to have recorded here on the webiste, not even in passing. Strange but there you go. My search did, however, reveal that back in late September 2011 I appeared on Talk Radio Europe to chat about my 2010 cycle to southern Italy. I have no recollection whatsoever of having done so but the proof is there. I did. You can listen to that interview from 13 years ago at the foot of this post.
https://cyclingeurope.org/2024..../05/17/le-grand-tour

OVERNIGHT TO KAMNIK & MAISTER BREWERY https://jeffsbiketour.com/2024..../05/14/overnight-to-

Van Life At The Cycle Touring Festival 2024 It's now almost a decade since Laura and Tim Moss organised the first Cycle Touring Festival. The 'in-person' event ran each year from 2015 until the arrival of COVID. After a number of online festivals running alongside some 'gatherings' in Clitheroe in Lancashire, 2024 saw a return of the festival to its pre-COVID slot on the calendar - May - but to a new location: Coniston in the Lake District. I've had the privilege of attending each of the festivals apart from that first event in 2015 (I was cycling from Tarifa to Nordkapp at the time) and at many of the events I have given a talk.
https://cyclingeurope.org/2024..../05/12/van-life-at-t

Le Grand Tour: Moving On… It is fair to say that writing a book takes up a lot of time. It's also equally fair to say that once the writing has finished, marketing a book also takes up a lot of time. This is my excuse for not having posted to the website or produced many episodes of the podcast in recent weeks and months. However, it's now over a week since Le Grand Tour on a Bike Called Wanda was unleashed from my protective shackles and I'm hoping to begin to return to the life of a blogging, podcasting cyclist. As for the book, it is now at the mercy of those who choose to read it and, perhaps, review it. So far, feedback has been overwhelmingly positive and I am very grateful to everyone who has posted on social media or messaged me or indeed written a formal online review. To all those who have done so, thank-you.
https://cyclingeurope.org/2024..../05/11/le-grand-tour