‘playing on the switchbacks’

hey say that Wales is home to more sheep than people, the UK has more potholes than miles of road, and at any given time a third of all French workers are on strike. But should you believe them? In my

It’s hard to imagine a better place to start a ride. At 1,326m Briançon is the highest city in France. And with 300 clear days a year on average, it’s also one of the sunniest. To describe the morning

We head up the Cambrian Way – Wales’ longest road and venue for one of its most epic road trips

Nestled among the jagged pinnacles of the Dolomites at the rock summit of the 2,239m Passo Pordoi is a blue-green bronze monument that commemorates the Italian legend Fausto Coppi. The five-time Giro

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One of TGO ’s favourite maverick adventurers, John Fleetwood , is back, this time with a fulsome coast-to-coast extension of the renowned GR20 that embraces the best of Mediterranean village life, swimming, scrambling and the odd scrape away from the hot spots