Given the complete lack of posts here since last July, you might be thinking that I’ve hung up my cycling shoes for good. But you’d be wrong...

I'm in the process of transferring the routes of the first three stages of my circumnavigation of the Czech Republic to Bikemap.net , wh...

Winter is upon us in Prague. This morning there was frost glistening on the rooftop outside my flat. A smattering of snow is forecast for th...

Stage 1, day 4 (Monday, 17 May 2010)   Králíky to Náchod (98 km) I peek nervously out of the window first thing on Monday morning. The ra...

Stage 1, day 3 (Sunday, 16 May 2010) Zlaté hory to Králíky (111 km) I'm up and over another climb. This should be the easy bit: the d...

Stage 1, day 2 (Saturday, 15 May 2010): Opava to Zlaté hory (104 km) I'm wrecked. I'm still only half way up this climb, but the...

Stage 1, day 1 (Friday, 14 May 2010):  Bohumín to Opava (50 km) Bohumín railway station, 3.25 pm, Friday. Here at last, after months of p...

This is my 50th post. It's also my most important one so far, as I'm using it to pay several debts of gratitude.

Looks like my attempt at audio blogging on the go failed. Never mind, I'll try again when I get home - in about 3 hours! Yes, I'm on...

Hope this gets through to the blog ok. I've never tried audio blogging before, so apologies for any roughness at the edges.

I've decided to continue. The rain has stopped, the forecast is not too bad, and I feel refreshed after a good night's sleep and a h...

This is going to be short, as I'm exhausted. When Czechs have had enough of something, they say, "I have full teeth". Well, my...

It's lunchtime and I'm in a restaurant in Javornik. As I look up at its impressive castle (pictured) I can see the rain coming down ...

A day of ups and downs, literally and figuratively. Two punctures in the morning, flooded trails in the afternoon, all rounded off by a kill...

...and it's still overcast, but not raining. Thanks to Keith (see comment under last post) and my wife Jitka (love u) for much needed en...

Made it to Opava as planned. In the end the cycling gods smiled on me and called off the rain shortly after I left Bohumin. Let's hope t...

Bohumin in the rain.

And so it did come to pass, on the eve of my trip, that a rain cloud did descend upon the whole country. I knew that dress rehearsal went to...

At long last - after months of blathering on about my trip - I'm about to set off. It's time to kick aside the keyboard and get ridi...

I'm ready at last to unveil stage 1 of my route around the Czech Republic, which starts in the northern Moravian town of Bohumín. The fi...