Talking Point 15: To be a pilgrim? This week’s Talking Point photos were taken on our 2008 cycle pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela. I dug them out when a pilgrim slept in our spare room earlier this week. Shortly before the snow fell across Britain, the Warmshowers site delivered us Enzo, a biking Frenchman, on [...]
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Interview with Adventure Dad Charley Boorman
In the second post of our Adventure Parents series, actor and TV presenter Charley Boorman explains how his upbringing shaped his lifelong sense of adventure. Charley is an enthusiastic and experienced world traveller and his passion for adventure can be seen in his many best selling TV documentaries. But his love of the outdoors and his appetite [...]
The Old Dock Tour Liverpool
The Old Dock Tour Liverpool Liverpool is a city with many well known sons. From Bill Shankley in the Anfield spin off gallery Reds, to John Lennon lounging outside The Cavern Club, their images are crammed into the urban space. Look behind the Liverpool Big Wheel, down near the Albert Dock, and you’ll currently see an [...]
Liverpool: The Friendly City
Liverpool: The Friendly City “When they say ‘Ello love, you alright?’ – It’s like nothing else.” Liverpool writer Carla Lane (quoted at the Museum of Liverpool.) As a child growing up as a ‘woollyback’ (i.e. someone who lived just outside Liverpool), I wasn’t aware people in Liverpool were different. Although I do remember that getting [...]
It started with a crisp
It all started with a crisp It was a long wet ride from Valmiera to Valka, our last road in Latvia. The road itself looked much the same as the one we entered Latvia on, a black and white scratch through thick green forest, but I felt differently about it now compared to the night [...]
Three wise men and a Riga architecture tour
Three wise men of Riga Learning about Riga architecture and history As we cycled into Riga a smartly dressed silver haired pensioner waved a union jack clipboard at us, stepped into our path and brought us to a standstill. At first I thought it may be another drunk but as he started to speak he [...]
Some things are meant to be.. finding a bed in Latvia
Some things are meant to be… Erhans believed we were meant to meet. “When I stopped to take a picture of you, I knew you weren’t regular cyclists.” And it seemed we were meant to meet Erhans. We had cycled into Liepaja with high hopes. After several days camping, we were hot, dirty, tired and [...]
Break for the border: On and over the Latvia border
Break for Latvia border We hadn’t intended to cross the Lithuania Latvia border and enter Latvia. Well not that night, anyway. We’d been hoping to stay in or just beyond Palanga, to give time to prepare ourselves for the transition, learn a few phrases, get some local currency. Palanga was billed in our guide as [...]
Potholes and pig-dogs? Arriving in Lithuania
Arriving in Lithuania Lorries bound for Baltic destinations accelerated past us in the dusk. Their ease at thundering over pot-holes without a second glance contrasted with our caution. “Pot-hole,” I shouted to Stuart again and again. He was right behind me and couldn’t see the road in front. Often my warning had to extend to [...]
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