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153. The green monster – Ditchling Beacon and the London to Brighton bike ride
UPDATE February 2012 – For a Ditchling Beacon map and gradient information, please see here: 223. Cycling on Surrey and Sussex hills – from White Down to Ditchling Beacon; – And for return routes back...
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155. Le grand départ – the Tour de France in London 2007
The streets of London deserted … except for a million people lining the roads. A Brit leading the Tour de France halfway through Kent, and pulling on the King of the Mountains jersey, later that same...
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167. Paris – Ville de lumière
Ville de lumière J’ai besoin de toi Gold – September 1986 The City of Light lies at her knees. It’s eight o’clock on an autumn Friday, and the streets of Paris are grid-locked. Frozen. Emerging up the...
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169. Down tracks and cracks in Paris and London – Tate Modern and the 1812...
Rain. River. November. On the long-awaited day that Paris came closer to London. As I step on to the platform under a damp grey sky, there’s a farewell party in full swing around the station. After...
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171. A splash of Burgundy in winter
The sun is wan and thin today, struggling weakly to light the path around the park as I lope my way through the winter afternoon on this, the shortest day. Christmas is just around the corner. In...
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180. Mountains of food – la cuisine savoyarde
I was in Haute-Savoie last week – part of the ancient kingdom of Savoy – that mountainous corner of France around Mont Blanc and south of the Swiss city of Geneva. The name Savoy comes from the latin...
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191. Two years of Roads of Stone
The second anniversary of this site passed midway through a busy August. An office move and a new computer have diverted me since, but the milestone seems worth marking all the same. There hasn’t been...
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56. Paris – a view from the Champs de Mars
Kicking down the cobblestones on a warm and sultry morning, there are just a few marble steps to climb ahead. And already, blue sky is rent by cool bronze metal, still tepid in the hazy sunshine across...
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114. Mont Blanc morning – Flaine, France
High upon the Grandes Platières ski-lift, the French resort of Flaine recedes quickly behind us, the colour of the concrete fading fast into the grey of the rocks, and the outlines of the Bauhaus...
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118. The scales of truth
Six weeks have gone by. The cowslip has grown high and lush beside the country lanes I drive to work each morning, the Sussex fields beyond the office are fast drying out enough for lunchtime running,...
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