Stories behind the stories. By Travel Writer, Amy McPherson
(Feature image credit to Natalia Santolaya) For all that could have been, this year had been a great year. I did spend most of the first months of the year grieving after the loss of my cat, the year has been kind. One of the biggest opportunity came in the form of the world’s biggest …
Continued from Cycling five countries: Part 1 I left you with a rest day in Dublin, where I spent most of the day walking dazed around town and hanging out with Oscar Wilde while being heavily medicated with cold and flu tablets. In a way, it was a revelation how much our bodies can take …
For me, every cycle tour begins the same way: with a fall. You read a few posts ago that I don’t particularly balance well. So cycling at a fast pace, having to deal with clipping on and off, deal with obstructions like a loose running dog or even just trying to get around curving road …
Here’s a small confession. I don’t have great balance. It’s something to do with my middle ear, something that has always been there giving me the occasional vertigo attacks, and the inability to watch action movies on big screen. So it’s no surprise that ever since I picked up cycling, I have fallen and crashed …
