Tag: bicycles
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The lost railways at our door
We have lived in Donmouth for about 17 years now, long enough to have found interesting details in the landscape. Soon after we arrived, back when the salmon nets still...
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The last short ride, and meandering reflections
Our last ride was, in some ways, the hardest. Eleanor had slept fitfully on the train from Glasgow and was shivering when I woke her just after Stonehaven. It is...
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Laggan Locks to Inverness and home
I remember from long walks that the third or fourth day marks a transition: the sore bits hurt but the body adapts. This morning we both woke up sore: the...
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Stratherrick, Fort Augustus and Loch Oich
Our send off from Foyers Bay House was a good breakfast and the most enormous pack lunches. (Looking ahead through my description of food, I find that the word ‘enormous’...
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Inverness to Foyers
We arrived at Inverness train station after ‘the most boring train journey ever’. As we ticked off the stations approaching Inverness (Elgin, Nairn, Forres), we saw grey clouds and treetops...