Overland bicycle travels around the world

To whom it may concern,

I felt com­pelled to write to your organ­isa­tion after spend­ing sev­eral days cyc­ling from Dover to the East Mid­lands, hav­ing just arrived from con­tin­ental Europe. My inten­tion was to make this jour­ney as enjoy­able and safe as pos­sible, rather than to cover the dis­tance in the min­imum pos­sible amount of time. Nat­ur­ally there­fore I looked to the National Cycle Net­work, in search of off-road and quiet routes through the country.

May I, then, con­grat­u­late you on hav­ing con­struc­ted one of the most com­pre­hens­ive cyc­ling infra­struc­tures that I have come across dur­ing my bicycle travels in 34 coun­tries. Read More »