Category Rides

What do you do when there’s no good coffee shop within walking distance of your home? Open one as a side hustle of course. That’s what Anna Potapova and Anton Potapov did when they launched Holy Grain & Brew in…

After twenty-four years of living in the UK I still come across British weather words I’ve never heard before. Mizzling is one of them, and that’s what it’s doing today as I head down the M1 on my way to…

Finding a specialty coffee shop and a free motorcycle bay right next to each other in Central London is proof that there is a god. Or, at least a saint. Saint Nine sits on Southwark Street, surrounded by offices and…

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…

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…

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…