Archive
250 posts
2026
- Riding from Center Parcs Woburn Forest to Bletchley Park
- Riding along the Mancunian Way
- Short ride outside Center Parcs Woburn Forest
- Center Parcs Woburn Forest
- Riding the Redways of Milton Keynes
- Netherlands 25: Visiting the Tij Observatory
- Netherlands 25: One final ride to Leiden
- Netherlands 25: Riding to Kunstmuseum Den Haag
- Netherlands 25: Riding from Duinrell to Den Haag
- Netherlands 25: Loop ride from Duinrell to Scheveningen
- Netherlands 25: More wandering in Leiden
- Netherlands 25: A day trip to Amsterdam
2025
- Netherlands 25: Riding from Duinrell to Leiden
- Netherlands 25: Riding to Katwijk aan Zee for lunch
- Netherlands 25: Riding from Duinrell to Delft
- Netherlands 25: Loop ride around Vlietland
- Netherlands 25: Riding from Duinrell to Rotterdam
- Walking and cycling improvements on Chapel Street, Salford
- Netherlands 25: Evening ride to the beach at Wassenaarse Slag
- Netherlands 25: Riding the Velostrada from Leiden to Den Haag
- Netherlands 25: Two weeks at Duinrell
- Center Parcs Elveden Forest
- Center Parcs Sherwood Forest
- Netherlands 24: Loop ride from Duinrell to Voorburg via Huis ten Bosch
- Netherlands 24: Loop ride from Duinrell to Katwijk
- Drum & Bass on the Bike Manchester – 5 October 2025
- Netherlands 24: Riding to Den Haag and Scheveningen via Madurodam
- Netherlands 24: Riding to the Burgemeester Waaijerbrug bridge
- Netherlands 24: Riding to the beach at Wassenaarse Slag
- Netherlands 24: Riding from Duinrell to Leiden
- Netherlands 24: Riding around Wassenaar
- Netherlands 24: Back at Duinrell
- Welcome to Sir Tony Lloyd Square, at the heart of Stretford's new town centre
- Netherlands 24: Riding to the Nationaal Militair Museum
- Netherlands 24: A wander along the Eem to Koppelpoort and a visit to the Mondriaanhuis
- Netherlands 24: In Utrecht again, visiting DOMunder and back via the Dafne Schippers Bridge
- Netherlands 24: Bosbad Amersfoort, an outdoor swimming pool in the forest
- Netherlands 24: Riding the F28 fast route to Utrecht
- Netherlands 24: Cycling in Amersfoort
- Paris 24: A walk along the Coulée verte René-Dumont, Paris' High Line
- Manchester Critical Mass - June 2025
- Paris 24: Wandering along Canal Saint-Martin
- Paris 24: A ride to Bastille and a wander round Centre Pompidou
- Paris 24: Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie, Paris' museum of science and industry
- Paris 24: In the Paris Catacombs
- Paris 24: Fat Tire Tour of Paris
- Paris 24: A day in Montmartre
- Paris 24: Wandering round Parc Clichy-Batignolles – Martin Luther King and up the Arc de Triomphe
- Paris 24: Cycling in Paris
- Manchester Critical Mass - April 2025
- Berlin 23: Back at Holzmarkt 25 and a wander along the Landwehr Canal
- Berlin 23: Back at Tempelhofer Feld
- Stretford to Stockport on the Mersey River Path and Fallowfield Loop
- Berlin 23: DDR Museum
- Berlin 23: A long wait for a kebab and a ride on an old runway at Tempelhofer Feld
- Berlin 23: Fat Tire Tour of Berlin
- Berlin 23: Berlin Wall Memorial on Bernauer Straße
- Berlin 23: Riding around the Brandenburg Gate, Potsdamer Platz and Ku'damm
- Berlin 23: Holzmarkt 25
- Back in Costa del Stretford at the completed Kingsway scheme
- Berlin 23: Stasi Museum
2024
- RIP A56 pop-up cycle lanes, long live the new protected lanes!
- Berlin 23: Riding around Mitte and Tiergarten
- The Crab and Winkle Way, a walking and cycling route from Canterbury to Whitstable
- Berlin 23: A rainy Sunday in Mauerpark
- Berlin 23: Top of Berliner Fernsehturm, Berlin's TV Tower
- Berlin 23: Back again in Berlin
- Pilgrims' Way and Medway Towpath loop around Maidstone
- Margate and Ramsgate loop along the Viking Coastal Trail
- Helsinki 23: Public Transport in Helsinki
- Helsinki 23: Oodi Helsinki Central Library
- Helsinki 23: Alvar Aalto's National Pensions Institute
- Helsinki 23: Boat trip to Suomenlinna
- Helsinki 23: Riding Baana, the start of a 150 km planned cycle network
- Helsinki 23: Cycling in Helsinki
- RIP A56 pop-up cycle lanes?
- More from Stretford-on-sea (Kingsway) - February 2024
- Progress on Kingsway, Stretford - January 2024
- Riding the Bristol and Bath Railway Path
- Riding the Bath Two Tunnels Greenway
- Cycling in Bath
2023
- Germany 22: Back in Berlin
- New Brighton to West Kirby
- Manchester Kidical Mass - September 2023
- Germany 22: 24 hours in Bremen
- Germany 22: Walking, cycling and drinking in Berlin
- Netherlands 22: A day out in Delft
- Netherlands 22: Zaandam by boat
- Netherlands 22: Riding around Hembrug
- Netherlands 22: The route to Zwembad De Breek
- Netherlands 22: The route to Zaanse Schans
- Netherlands 22: The route to Amsterdam
- Netherlands 22: The route to NDSM
- Netherlands 22: Around Zaandam
- Netherlands 22: The route to Leiden
- Netherlands 22: The route to Katwijk and Noordwijk
- Netherlands 22: A multimodal trip to Rotterdam
- Netherlands 22: The route to Wassenaarse Slag
- Netherlands 22: The route to Vlietland
2022
2021
2020
- A56 pop-up cycle lanes and beyond (Part 3)
- A56 pop-up cycle lanes and beyond (Part 2)
- A56 pop-up cycle lanes and beyond (Part 1)
- France 19: Dives-sur-Mer and Cabourg
- France 19: Camping Village La Vallée and Houlgate
- Netherlands 20: August 2014 (Duinrell)
- Netherlands 20: August 2014 (Camping Bakkum)
- Netherlands 20: August 2014 (Camping Geversduin)
- Netherlands 20: June 2014
- Netherlands 20: 2013
- Netherlands 20: 2012
- Netherlands 20
- Metrolink Trafford Park Line – March 2020 (Part 3)
- Metrolink Trafford Park Line – March 2020 (Part 2)
- Metrolink Trafford Park Line – March 2020 (Part 1)
2019
- 10 steps to revitalising Stretford town centre
- Former Kellogg's Site Masterplan
- Netherlands 19: The route to Delft
- Netherlands 19: The route to Voorburg
- Netherlands 19: Utrecht revisited
- Netherlands 19: The route to Harderwijk
- Netherlands 19: The route to Nunspeet
- Progress on the Metrolink Trafford Park Line - July 2019
- Progress on the Stretford Cycleway – March 2019
- Progress on the Stretford Cycleway – Mid January 2019
2018
- Progress on the Stretford Cycleway – Mid November 2018 (Part 3)
- Progress on the Stretford Cycleway – Mid November 2018 (Part 2)
- Progress on the Stretford Cycleway – Mid November 2018 (Part 1)
- Trafford Civic Quarter Masterplan
- Progress on the Stretford Cycleway - Mid September 2018
- Progress on the Stretford Cycleway - Early September 2018
- Progress on the Stretford Cycleway - Late August 2018
- Progress on the Stretford Cycleway - August 2018
- Bee in the City, public spaces and what Deansgate could be
- Netherlands 18: The route to Zoetermeer
- Netherlands 18: Around Wassenaar
- Netherlands 18: The route to Wassenaarse Slag
- Netherlands 18: The route to Madurodam
- Netherlands 18: A ride on the Houtribdijk
- Netherlands 18: A day out in Hoorn
- Netherlands 18: A day out in Amsterdam
- Netherlands 18: A day at the Zuiderzee Museum
- Let's Ride Manchester - July 2018
- Netherlands 18: The route to Enkhuizen
- Netherlands 18: Around Bovenkarspel
- Beelines - Chris Boardman's plan to deliver a walking and cycling network for Greater Manchester
- Davyhulme Road East, still as dangerous as ever
- Barriers to cycling on the Bridgewater Way
- Waltham Forest Mini-Holland (part 4) - Cycle parking
- Waltham Forest Mini-Holland (part 3) - Modal filters
- Waltham Forest Mini-Holland (part 2) - Lea Bridge and Markhouse Roads
- Waltham Forest Mini-Holland (part 1) - Orford and Francis Roads
- Save Turn Moss - Lobby of Trafford Council meeting
- Happy Birthday Gary Neville, Hands off Turn Moss!
- Save Turn Moss
2017
- Made to Move - Chris Boardman's plan to transform walking and cycling in Greater Manchester
- A tale of two masterplans
- Metrolink Trafford Park Line – Latest designs
- What does the Stretford Public Realm scheme tells us about Trafford Council's intentions for UA92?
- My response to the revised Stretford Masterplan
- UA92 proposals and the revised Stretford Masterplan
- Callow Top Holiday Park, Ashbourne, Derbyshire
- The daily commute, Trivandrum
- Trafford Cycle Forum – October 2017
- Davyhulme Road East, a collision waiting to happen
- Butt Farm, Beverley, East Yorkshire
- The Green Caravan Park, Wentnor, Shropshire
- Metrolink Trafford Park Line - Trafford Wharf update
- Stretford public realm final drawings
- HSBC UK City Ride Manchester - July 2017
- Netherlands 17: The route to Leiden
- Netherlands 17: The route to Stoomtrein Katwijk Leiden
- Trafford Cycle Forum – July 2017
- Netherlands 17: The route to Wassenaarse Slag
- Netherlands 17: Around Amsterdamsestraatweg
- Netherlands 17: The route to Griftpark
- Trafford Cycle Forum Technical Meeting – July 2017
- Netherlands 17: Around Utrecht centre
- Netherlands 17: Around Utrecht Centraal Station
- Netherlands 17: The route to De Haar Castle
- Netherlands 17: Cycle parking in Utrecht
- Trafford Cycle Forum – May 2017
- Manchester Big Ride - April 2017
- RIP Stretford subways, and good luck to all who use the surface crossings
- Back on the Bridgewater Way and Trans Pennine Trail – March 2017
- My top 10 wish list for the Greater Manchester mayor
- Cycling and the Greater Manchester mayoral election
- Metrolink Trafford Park Line
- Trafford Cycle Forum – February 2017
- Trafford Cycle Forum Technical Meeting - February 2017
2016
- Trafford Cycle Forum – November 2016
- Trafford Cycle Forum – August 2016
- Stretford public realm phase 1
- Sky Ride Manchester - July 2016
- Netherlands 16: 5 myths about cycling in The Netherlands
- Netherlands 16: The route to Katwijk aan Zee
- Netherlands 16: The route to Middelburg
- Netherlands 16: Around Vlissingen
- Netherlands 16: Dutch bikes
- Trafford Cycle Forum - May 2016
- Manchester Kidical Mass - May 2016
- Spin Manchester 2016
- More family cycling on the Bridgewater Way and Trans Pennine Trail – May 2016
- Museum of Transport, Greater Manchester
- 10 things I learned from my visit to London
- London - April 2016
- Progress on the Wilmslow Road Cycleway – April 2016 (Part 4)
- Progress on the Wilmslow Road Cycleway - April 2016 (Part 3)
- Progress on the Wilmslow Road Cycleway - April 2016 (Part 2)
- Progress on the Wilmslow Road Cycleway - April 2016 (Part 1)
- Simply Cycling in Longford Park
- Speeding, pavement parking and rat running, just a typical Manchester street
- Four thousand holes in Didsbury, Manchester (Updated)
- Family cycling on the Bridgewater Way and Trans Pennine Trail - March 2016
- Mersey Valley and Stockport Cycleway
- New TfGM cycleways and the importance of good junction design (Updated)
- Trafford Cycle Forum - February 2016
- Stretford public realm consultation results
- Platt Fields Bike Hub
- Normalising Cycling workshop
- Impressions of cycling in York
2015
- Progress on the Wilmslow Road Cycleway - December 2015
- Trafford Cycle Forum - November 2015
- Progress on the Wilmslow Road Cycleway - October 2015
- Autumn on the Fallowfield Loop
- Brightening up some filtered permeability in Stretford
- Manchester #space4cycling - October 2015
- Follow up: Stretford public realm
- Trafford Cycle Forum - September 2015
- Bridgewater Way work continues beyond Altrincham
- Cycling in Cambridge and what Manchester could learn
- Sky Ride Manchester - August 2015
- A week in Trivandrum
- Stockport Cycleway, another missed opportunity for CCAG (Updated)
- Netherlands 15: The route to Leiden
- Netherlands 15: Around Duinrell
- Comment: Bridgewater Cycleway
- Save Trafford Wharf and Promenade Park
- Netherlands 15: The route to Wassenaarse Slag
- Netherlands 15: Around The Hague
- Review: FollowMe Tandem (Updated)
- Stretford public realm