Stage 5, day 3 (Saturday, 4 June 2011) Strážný to Vyšší Brod (94 km) First, a quick history lesson. The Schwarzenberg Timber Floating Cha...

Stage 5, day 2 (Friday, 3 June 2011) Železná Ruda to Strážný (78 km) The mournful title track of “The Forest is Crying” (an LP of Bulgari...

Stage 4, day 3 (Monday, 11 April 2011) Přimda to Babylon (68 km) God I love the mountains. This hill is steep - granny-gear steep, lung-b...

Stage 4, day 2 (Sunday, 10 April 2011) Cheb to Přimda (92 km) I’m standing at the base of Milíře, a steel telecom tower built in 2001. I’...

Stage 4, day 1 (Saturday, 9 April 2011) Aš to Cheb (79 km) I’m on the shuttle train from Cheb to Aš, the same train that I took in the op...

Šumava - the largest continuous area of forest in Central Europe and the biggest national park in the Czech Republic - is the setting for St...

I’m not sure why, but I’ve had a sense of foreboding about Stage 4 right from the start. It’s certainly not the longest leg of my trip - in ...

As you can see from the photo, I’m busy planning the remaining four stages of my circuit ride. In doing so, I have discovered - to my surpr...

Stage 3, day 4 (Tuesday, 21 September 2010) Kraslice to Aš (68 km) It’s decision time. Do I keep going straight down the main road to the...

Stage 3, day 2 (Sunday, 19 September 2010) Mikulov to Vejprty (85 km) Our arrival in the breakfast room at Hotel Ice-Axe causes some merr...

Stage 3, day 1 (Saturday, 18 September 2010) Děčín to Mikulov (63 km) The two of us are taking a breather at a roadside picnic table half...

Stage 3 of my cycling circumnavigation of the Czech Republic starts this coming Saturday. For the first two days I’ll be riding in the compa...

Stage 2, day 5 (Tuesday, 27 July 2010) Zittau to Děčín (120 km) - Part 2 (read Part 1 here ) Down, down, deeper and down. I’m on the lon...

Stage 2, day 5 (Tuesday, 27 July 2010) Zittau to Děčín (120 km) - Part 1 I love German hotel breakfasts! Stuffing oneself with as much fo...

Stage 2, day 4 (Monday, 26 July 2010) Szklarska Poręba to Zittau (119 km) When Czechs want to compare and contrast two very different thi...

Today I was intending to post a write-up of day four of the latest leg of my cycling trip around the entire Czech border. I have been overta...

The Tour de France might be up to its 15th stage already, but I start stage 2 of my trip around the Czech Republic this weekend. View Stag...

It is surely the dream of every cyclist to ride downhill uninterrupted the whole day long. Well, it’s a dream that came true for me on my re...

I'm off for a week today - on a cycling holiday! I'll be travelling with two very good friends of mine - Ryan and Ciaran - from Muni...

Here’s my guide to the principal named long-distance cycle routes in the Czech Republic (with links to more information in English where ava...