Tag: Random

It has become a bit of a running joke with Joe to find tasteful, useful and creative things you can make with tyres.  We are still trying to find anything that qualifies on all three categories at once… Meanwhile I’ll put any interesting photos in this thread.  Latest photos first, so come back here for Exciting Updates later… (I’ll also…

I have been thinking about church spires, as you do. Many of the spires in France (and probably in the UK too, I will check when we get back, cf “Hertfordshire Spike”) look like they built a tower first and then went for the post-factory upgrade once they’d saved up some more money, or as spire fashions changed. As we…

From time to time we take pictures of bicycles but it’s not always easy to weave them into the narrative of the blog, so I thought I would collect them here.  As with the things-made-from-tyres post, the latest pics will be at the top and the date will always be the last date of posting. Latest is a very simple…

For quite a long time in the middle of the trip we didn’t need to think about other cyclists, because there weren’t any. But now we are in the richer (and dare I observe, flatter) areas of southern France, the numbers are starting to build up. They come in the following categories:– Men (always) in full club kit whooshing past…