Tag Archives: bike

What to do when you miss a charter flight, and fancy lace underwear (Rousse)

Posted on August 3, 2015 by Dreamaticus

TF came with us on a winter sports holiday package included both skiing and tandem riding. On the last day there was some confusion over access to the hotel. I was lucky enough to find my room (eventually) although its … Continue reading →

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Poor lavatory location and an inadequate fire alarm (Rousse)

Posted on August 2, 2015 by Dreamaticus

There was no mistake: this bed and breakfast was awful. How had they got away with positioning a toilet in the tiny dining room, and what use was a fire alarm system that relied on the proprietors shouting ‘Fire, fire’? … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged alarm, bed, bicycle, bike, breakfast, cafe, cycle, dining, escape, fire, lavatory, leave, location, Peebles, poor, position, proprietors, room, street, toilet, TPR | Leave a comment

Hebridean pursuits: cycling, flying, and wildlife (Rousse)

Posted on June 16, 2015 by Dreamaticus

We met the French cyclists when they came off the North Uist ferry. Exhausted and soaked, they were not happy tourists. We agreed that the Hebridean weather was not the easiest and, as illustration, I demonstrated how I could launch … Continue reading →

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A Norwegian odyssey (Rousse)

Posted on June 7, 2015 by Dreamaticus

TPR took out the map and showed me the route. He was going to catch a boat from Newcastle to Norway, then cycle the length of the famous fjords. I was not invited because – as his wife – it … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged bike, boat, cycle, delivery, famous, fjord, fjords, goods, invite, map, Newcastle, Norway, Norwegian, odyssey, responsibilty, route, summer, TPR, white, wife | Leave a comment

Edinburgh marathon star grants interview, ruins parquet flooring, and pets a pig (Rousse)

Posted on May 14, 2015 by Dreamaticus

While BC gave media interviews about her forthcoming Edinburgh marathon appearance, I waited back at the flat with N and TPR. TPR kept himself busy making batches of soup and serving them to passing friends. KT and her glamorous sister … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged bicycle, bike, bike rack, butcher, cuddle, cycle, dirt, Edinburgh, flooring, friend, Friends, interview, marathon, mark, media, parquet, pet, pig, potty, shed, soup, TPR, training | Leave a comment

Getting naked with friends (Rousse)

Posted on April 22, 2015 by Dreamaticus

We all thought that GG, JG and their daughters and small son were away so I got a bit of a shock when I walked into their bathroom naked and came face-to-face with GG stepping out of the shower. I … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged ball, bathroom, bedroom, bike, body building, boyfriend, bus, child, crawl, daughters, Friends, home, middle, naked, racing, roll, seaside, shock, shower, son, town, wobbly | Leave a comment

Salford scheme shames poor drivers (Rousse)

Posted on April 12, 2015 by Dreamaticus

My driving was getting worse. In Salford I scraped our white BMW against the kerb outside a hospital, nearly taking out some nursing staff. Thankfully the car easily transformed into a motorbike. This meant that I could make a quick … Continue reading →

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Saved by the South Uist Sheepdog Trials (Rousse)

Posted on December 29, 2014 by Dreamaticus

We were honoured to be allowed to observe the archaeological dig. Afterwards the young man in charge asked if he could commandeer our tandem to ride a little further north to another site. We said that this would be fine, … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged archaeology, archeology, bike, collies, companion, cycle, dig, field, lycra, novice, Outer Hebrides, racers, ride, road, sheepdog, site, South Uist, Sunday, tandem, Western Isles | Leave a comment

Unique accommodation and party provision for Newcastle University students (Rousse)

Posted on November 26, 2014 by Dreamaticus

At Newcastle University the students slept together stacked on open wooden shelves, not unlike enormous upturned printers’ blocks. They all used special fixed-gear bicycles to scale the high walls to reach their wooden cells. Unfortunately the sleeping space was very … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged accommodation, belongings, bicycle, bicycles, bike, bikes, block, blocks, blow, box, boxes, breakfast, brochure, cell, cells, cereal, cessation, class, classes, course, cycle, cycles, event, events, fixed-gear, Newcastle, Newcastle University, niece, party, print, printer, printers, publicity, ring, rings, shelf, shelves, sister, sleep, smoking, social, space, students, timetable, timetables, university, University of Newcastle, walls, wll, wood | Leave a comment

Phil Collins’ Ghostbusters dance (Rousse)

Posted on October 28, 2014 by Dreamaticus

Phil Collins danced with joy as I watched Ghostbusters on a decrepit VHS tape. Afterwards I took the dog into town to find TPR’s abandoned bike. When I returned home to the White House I annoyed my sister J. She … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged bedroom, bike, dance, dawn, dog, garden, Ghostbusters, Hartburn, mist, Phil Collins, sister photograph, Stockton, Stockton-on-Tees, tape, town, TPR, VHS, White House, window | Leave a comment

Tag Archives: bike

What to do when you miss a charter flight, and fancy lace underwear (Rousse)

Poor lavatory location and an inadequate fire alarm (Rousse)

Hebridean pursuits: cycling, flying, and wildlife (Rousse)

A Norwegian odyssey (Rousse)

Edinburgh marathon star grants interview, ruins parquet flooring, and pets a pig (Rousse)

Getting naked with friends (Rousse)

Salford scheme shames poor drivers (Rousse)

Saved by the South Uist Sheepdog Trials (Rousse)

Phil Collins’ Ghostbusters dance (Rousse)

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