Motorcycle Rides, Coffee Stops & the Sober-Curious Life
Motorcycle Rides, Coffee Stops & the Sober-Curious Life
The trip down through north London to Crouch End took around an hour from St Albans, helped along by calmer weather and a welcome return to a bike with more presence than the scooter I’d been using the week before…
The Greeks are delightfully serious about their coffee. You only need to walk a few steps in downtown Rhodes and you’ll land on a coffee shop. But there are a few that stand out in my opinion, not least because…
I sit down with Nikos Kalamaras, one half of Unik Specialty Coffee Brewers. We talk through how two brothers from a village 20km outside Rhodes Town built one of the island’s few real specialty coffee shops. We also get into…
I’m staying around four miles outside Rhodes Town, so today’s transport is a rented 80cc scooter. Engine size, I’ve learned, matters little on these bumpy roads and it’s easy to settle into the freedom the small bike gives you. I…
I’ve taken a long ride out today, to the Mixing Shed Café. It’s a recommendation from a friend, and at three hours round trip on small roads it’s the perfect length of ride for some thinking and reflecting. I’ve just…
Twenty miles from St Albans to Letchworth Garden City, via Harpenden, Kimpton, and Whitwell, past Hitchin. I picked the early slot on purpose. This is shaping up to be our fifth heatwave of the year. At twenty-one degrees and just…
Getting from St Albans to the coffee shop in Hitchin took just over half an hour on the bike. It was sixteen easy miles on roads that were new to me. Sunny, around 25°C, windy roads, old churches, and big…
Tractors, horses, the odd peacock, that’s what the back road from Harpenden to Hatfield offers. It’s exactly the kind of ride the Enfield’s built for. I was heading for Sustain Coffee Co in Hatfield. Rolling countryside the whole way, the…
One level down at King’s Cross, Gramos Coffee Bar has been quietly building a following for ten years, an independent, single-origin coffee company that roasts its own beans on-site. Rated 4.9 stars on Google, and routinely described by regulars as…
I rode down to London on a proper scorcher, 29 degrees by the time I hit the city. Scenic plotted the route out of Harpenden, through St Albans, Chipping Barnet, and Edgware. It avoided the motorway the whole way down…
