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 …