9 Ergebnisse.

A guide and introduction to collecting model buses and coaches in the popular HO/1:87 scale. It isn't intended as definitive but more of an aid. Plenty of pictures help to clarify things especially if you buy over the internet.

After the trials and tribulations of 2013 a gentler trip was on the cards for 2014. Then there was the German bucket list.... before I knew it I was putting together a stunning trip of museums and cities. But that's not even the beginning....

Best laid plans and all that. Well in this case they were neither best laid or fated to be completed! Of course there is always a story to tell so here goes...Once upon a time... Follow my trials and tribulations as I make plans, change plans, have changes thrust upon me before finally making something of my lot and moving on from the setbacks presented to me in 2017. Its not all bikes, they are certainly in here, but family, relatio...

Will 2018 prove to be less 'eventful' than 2017? Well I certainly hoped so and started making plans for the summer trip. But somewhere along the line, Sod put an oar in and my plans, one by one started to crumble. However, not being one to give up, I came up with some different ways to see the world and you can find out just what inside.

A big birthday was looming and a return to Switzerland seemed like a good way of celebrating. Of course it couldn't be that simple...

2019 was going to be a year of high adventure but things went a awry! That's not to say that I didn't have some adventures along the way culminating in a search for Swedish detective Wallander. Its all inside, the planning, the booking, the dilemmas as well as accounts of the other 'big' cycling trips of the 2018/9 season. Of course its liberally illustrated with images and mapping, which give a tantalising taste of my travels.

The map of Germany still had too much unvisited left so almost on impulse i picked an area to visit - the Mid East, Thuringen but there were some other places nearby too... Here is the tale of my 2012 trip across Thuringen and northern Bavaria by bike, train and a few hundred metres by ferry!

2015, I decided, would be an easy summer trip, no mountains, dodgy weather or awkward travel arrangements. No instead I'd travel by ferry, enjoy guaranteed good weather and no extreme terrain. Did it turn out like that? hell as like! This tome tracks the highs, lows and frustrations of not just the main trip but other rides along the way.

It all started with a book, well books, extoling the virtues of some of the greatest cycling climbs in Europe. It ended with a smile and an adventure that pushed my personal limits further than I imagined. This tome follows the ups, downs and sometimes sideways moves and decisions that shaped this trip across Austria via some of the countries highest roads by bicycle. From the gripping Otztaler Radmarathon with its four passes in a day to the ...