The Doc salutes cycling’s boredom-vanishing powers

The most challenging corner of the post-war period.” Those were the words of Motor Sport’s Denis Jenkinson when that corner, or rather sequence thereof, appeared under threat 30 years ago. He was talk

Water we going to do? Let’s dive in → Water covers more than 70% of the Earth’s surface. Yet 97% of it is saline, and much of what remains is locked away in ice caps and glaciers. If all the planet’s

BACK in 1994, I made a big mistake ...

An archæological mystery, first noticed accidentally due to aerial photography in 1933, is etched across the hillside of Monte Sierpe (Serpent Mountain) in the Pisco Valley in southern Peru. It takes

In 1974, I hitchhiked with my girlfriend Lesley from John o’Groats to Land’s End in 10 days. After 46 years of happy marriage, Lesley died from breast cancer in October 2022. Losing the love of my lif