Helsinki 23: Boat trip to Suomenlinna
During our visit to Helsinki in 2023, like many tourists, we arranged to do a boat trip over to Suomenlinna (named Viapori in Finnish up until 1918, or Sveaborg in Swedish), the...
Helsinki 23: Riding Baana, the start of a 150 km planned cycle network
While in Helsinki during our 2023 visit, I was keen to try some of the best examples of cycling infrastructure in the city, making use of the City Bikes bike share to...
Helsinki 23: Cycling in Helsinki
In something of a change from the usual Netherlands, in 2023 we arranged a two leg trip to to the Finnish and German capitals, Helsinki and Berlin for our summer holiday. We...
RIP A56 pop-up cycle lanes?
It all looked so promising back in 2020, when Trafford Council had big ambitions to section off a seven mile stretch of the A56 with cones, to provide safe space for cycling....
More from Stretford-on-sea (Kingsway) - February 2024
Following on from last month’s update, some more from the transformation of Kingsway, Stretford as the work continues. Now it seems the new sun loungers have been getting some attention, so I...
Progress on Kingsway, Stretford - January 2024
For anyone familiar with my older posts about Stretford may remember proposals for Kingsway, way way back in 2015. These were part of the public realm scheme put forward by the old...
Riding the Bristol and Bath Railway Path
Our trip to Bath really wouldn’t have been complete without a ride along the famous Bristol and Bath Railway Path. The history of this trailblazing traffic-free route is very much tied up...
Riding the Bath Two Tunnels Greenway
The Bath Two Tunnels Greenway wasn’t something we knew about before arriving in Bath. It was thanks to a couple of helpful suggestions on Twitter that we came to find out about...
Cycling in Bath
At the end of May 2023, we travelled down to Somerset, to spend a week in a lodge on the outskirts of Bath at the Bath Mill Lodge Retreat. We had been...
Germany 22: Back in Berlin
After spending 24 hours in Bremen, we arrived back in Berlin, for the final leg of our trip to Germany in 2022, following a very small part of the band Pavement’s European...
New Brighton to West Kirby
Every time we’ve been to The Wirral, I’ve said I should have brought my bike, so I could go for a ride along the waterfront. On an unusually warm October day, as...
Manchester Kidical Mass - September 2023
Now I wasn’t able to attend the first of the recent Kidical Mass rides back in May this year, which looked like a fantastic event, so I was very keen to get...