To Venice, again, and this time on the Brompton. Well, train to Treviso and then cycle to Venice, but still. Magic. Fun trips also to see my sainted mother in England and the Dublin Gastronomy Symposium. The cooler, wetter spring has meant the terrace is a jungle.
I was away much of last week, using my laptop rather than my desktop machine. I have a little Alfred workflow that helps me blog by creating a properly named folder in the correct place and moving a draft post into that folder before publishing. Trouble is, the correct place is slightly different be...
⏱️ 02:49 ⇄33.7km ⌀11.6km/h ↗357m ↘363m
The Eroica is a bicycle ride dedicated to vintage bicycles (pre-1987) and held in Tuscany on the first Sunday in October. I have known about it for a while, and encountered it accidentally last year. This year, back near Buonconvento with The Squeez...
Rabbit Quest really is fun home and away, offering at least one option for somewhere to go. This morning, first of a few days in Tuscany accompanying The Squeeze, the quest was about 1.5km away and reasonably close to a road. Off I went.
Walking in this part of the world at this time of the y...
I had a doctor’s appointment today. The doctor didn’t show for at least an hour. He also wasn’t answering calls from his frazzled staff. I hope he’s OK and glad that my need wasn’t urgent and that I was able to rebook. I also took advantage of the enforced downtime to read ...
