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Tag Archives: cycling
Time-travelling Rupert Grint (as Ron Weasley) greets Rousse in the Kingdom of Fife
This was one of the most interesting research seminars that I had ever attended: it was just like a circus performance. My favourite act was the set of extremely flexible women gymnasts. They all started off in crab position, tightly … Continue reading
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Tagged Aberdour, bike, circus, crab, cycle, cycling, Fife, flowers, frame, gymnast, gymnasts, harling, leg, legs, map, pebble-dash, reputation, river, Ron Weasley, Rupert Grint, signage, signpost, signposts, social media, tandem, time travel, time-travelling, torso, torsos, track, tracks, trail, trails, Twitter, vest, village, walk, walks
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Shetland’s craziest coach driver (Rousse)
We had both settled into our seats on the train on the way to the airport when I asked TPR what he had done with the suitcase. Although we’d both remembered our rucksacks as hand luggage, he’d forgotten to pick … Continue reading
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Tagged airport, bag, bags, boast, boasting, bumper, car, cars, children, coach, conversation, crazy, cycling, dead, death, diversion, dodgem, driver, driving, experience, flight, gate, hand, hillside, hotel, late, luggage, miss, missing, mountain, mountains, near-death, passengers, peak, peaks, reception, rucksack, rucksacks, seat, seats, Shetland, shop, shopping, souvenir, souvenirs, suitcase, tandem, theme park, toy, toys, TPR, train, watch
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Become a personal trainer – but not on this course (Rousse)
Completely fed up with work, I decided to ditch academia to train as a fitness instructor, and joined the same course as FM. The pace of the classes was incredibly slow, largely because the tutor took a 15 minute break … Continue reading
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Tagged Arthur's Seat, bike, class, classes, course, cycle, cycling, exercise, fitness, hair, instructor, mountain, personal, student, students, trainer, tutor, wheel
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Holy Island Heights (Rousse)
Just short of the Holy Island causeway, TPR steered the tandem over to the right. Perhaps behind these dunes we would finally discover the most beautiful beach in Northumberland? The sight before us from atop the marram grass was, indeed, … Continue reading
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Tagged beach, camera, causeway, cycling, desert, dune, dunes, Holy Island, Inner Mongolia, Lindisfarne, Mongolia, Northumberland, sand, shore, shoreline, tandem, Tengger Desert, TPR
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Debbie Harry impersonator stars at isolated Yorkshire guest house (Rousse)
The isolated guest house on the North Yorkshire moors was well-known for its strict graduate-only entry policy. I travelled there by car with Belle and a stranger. We couldn’t compete with his credentials as a UCL-based Jane Austen expert with … Continue reading
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Tagged baking, BBC, bicycle, bicyles, bike, bikes, Blondie, clerk, clerks, cycle, cycling, Debbie, Debbie Harry, Deborah, degree, disco, discos, explicit, Front Row, graduate, graduates, guest house, Harry, isolation, Jane Austen, London, lyrics, mobile, mobile phone, Moors, North Yorks, North Yorkshire, pastry, phone, radio, Radio 4, Scrabble, Stockton, Stockton-on-Tees, TPR, UCL, University College London, weather
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The Apprentice’s Natasha Scribbins vainly attempts to save Rousse from expenses claim hell
The domed railway concourse was packed. I sat on a bench surrounded by a mixture of old friends from the University of Birmingham, as well as a couple of school friends. In conversation it emerged that KM (now KC) had … Continue reading
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Tagged Apprentice, bikes, circuit training, cycling, cyclists, Devon, dome, expenses, Glasgow, Natasha Scribbins, papers, railway, running, running club, TPR, train, University of Birmingham, York
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Beware iPhone e-mail reconnection charges and approaching traffic (Rousse)
Although I was on holiday I couldn’t resist checking in on campus. Here I found a few close colleagues (DB, EH) taking a group of foreign staff and students out for lunch. Some walked to the restaurant, and others cycled. … Continue reading
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Tagged campus, cycling, driving, foreign, holiday, iPhone, lunch, pay-as-you-go, reconnection, staff, students, telecom, trandems, walking
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David Cameron’s seven-pack centrefold – plus numerous other adventures, including one at Buckingham Palace (Rousse)
At first I was thrilled to be resident at Buckingham Palace. However, I hadn’t understood that once welcomed in, there was little prospect of getting out. I begged the security staff to show me the exit, explaining how much I … Continue reading
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Tagged art, bed, bikes, Buckingham Palace, car, cars, centre-fold, cigarette, cycling, Daily Mail, David Cameron, dormitory, Dorset, dream, ferry, Harris, holiday, Holy Island, installation, Isle of Skye, Lindisfarne, Lindisfarne Castle, magazine, meeting, Nancy Cameron, politics, prime minister, royal family, running, security, seven-pack, six-pack, smoking, torso, TPR, Uig, video
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Alternative cycling in the Hebrides (Rousse)
Water started pouring through the upper floor of our cottage at Timsgarry on the Isle of Lewis. My partner guessed that the source of the problem was most likely the spring further up the hill. The urgency was such that … Continue reading
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Tagged cycling, cyclist, cyclists, flood, flooding, hill, horse, horsemen, horses, house, Isle of Lewis, Timsgarry, water
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Unhealthy pub grub and a Swedish opera singer (Rousse)
We took a break from cycling and stopped off at a pub for a lunch. Since the bar was unstaffed, TPR poured himself a pint of a lager, and a half for me. Then the waiter brought us a dish … Continue reading
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