Stage 7, day 5 (Wednesday, 5 July 2017) Jablunkov to Cieszyn, 54 km I should be feeling happy, but I’m not. My wife, Jitka, her cousin P...

Stage 7, day 4 (Tuesday, 4 July 2017) Karolinka to Jablunkov, 86 km Another day, another border crossing, this time at Konečná, which mea...

Stage 7, day 3 (Monday, 3 July 2017)  Žítková to Karolinka, 75 km Not for the first - or last - time on my Circuit Ride, I’m confronted w...

Stage 7, day 2 (Sunday, 2 July 2017) Hodonín to Žítková, 93 km I have ground to a halt halfway up the exposed spiral staircase of Travnič...

Stage 7, day 1 (Saturday, 1 July 2017) Břeclav to Hodonín, 54 km I’m standing on Czech soil at the southernmost vertex of the Dyje Triang...

Stage 6, day 5 (Wednesday, 28 September 2011) Mikulov to Břeclav (46 km) As I climb out of the village of Úvaly the crack of shotgun fire ...

Stage 6, day 4 (Tuesday, 27 September 2011) Znojmo to Mikulov (91 km) The slithery sandy track I’m on disappears into a thick, dark wood. ...

S tage 6, day 3 (Monday, 26 September 2011) Slavonice to Znojmo (86 km) I know I tend to bang on about breakfasts in these write-ups, but ...

Stage 6, day 2 (Sunday, 25 September 2011) Nové Hrady to Slavonice (99 km) The tripoint stone is tucked away behind some bushes behind a t...

Stage 6, day 1 (Saturday, 24 September 2011) Horní Dvořiště to Nové Hrady (61 km) Some days not much happens when you’re bicycle touring. ...

I've been busy over the last few days putting together a slideshow of Stage 6, which I completed last week. I hope you like the resu...

Here's the map of the route I took on Stage 5 of my circuit ride in June this year. Bike route 1218512 - powered by Bikemap  

Stage 5, day 4 (Sunday, 5 June 2011) Vyšší Brod to Horní Dvořiště (26 km) I am - you might say - extremely inefficient. Last year I faile...

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 5, day 1 (Thursday, 2 June 2011) Nýrsko to Železná Ruda (36 km) Just a half day’s cycling in store for me today, on the back of a f...

Here's the Stage 5 slideshow, folks!

Here's the map of the route I took on Stage 4 of my circuit ride in April this year. Bike route 1002648 - powered by Bikemap  

Stage 4, day 4 (Tuesday, 12 April 2011) Babylon to Nýrsko (34 km) Today is an in-between day - a transition stage, you might say. I’m lea...

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...