Motorcycle Rides, Coffee Stops & the Sober-Curious Life
Motorcycle Rides, Coffee Stops & the Sober-Curious Life
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, to talk through how two brothers from a village 20km outside Rhodes Town built one of the island’s few real specialty coffee shops, why the branding is…
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, a recommendation from a friend and the perfect length of ride, around a three hour round trip on small roads, to do some thinking and reflecting. For this…
Twenty miles from St Albans to Letchworth Garden City, out through Harpenden, Kimpton, and Whitwell before the roads straighten out past Hitchin. I picked the early slot on purpose. This is shaping up to be our fifth heatwave of the…
St Albans to Hitchin took just over half an hour on the bike, sixteen miles that felt easy on roads that were new to me. Sunny, around 25°C, windy roads, old churches, and big open countryside the whole way, through…
Tractors, horses, the odd peacock, that’s what the back road from Harpenden to Hatfield offers, and it’s exactly the kind of ride the Enfield’s built for. Rolling countryside the whole way, the kind of route where you’re happy to slow…
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, avoiding the motorway the whole way down into…
Motorcycle parking in a city centre shouldn’t be an afterthought, it should just work, the same as it does for any other vehicle. St Albans actually gets this right, and it’s worth knowing exactly how: dedicated motorcycle bays tucked down…
