In which our intrepid protagonist enters Poland, where he finds the trails - and the food - not entirely to his liking... Testing spells ...

I've now added my Stage 2 route to Bikemap.net. Stage 3 will follow soon. I particularly dig the way the bicycle icon travels along th...

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 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...

Stage 2, day 3 (Sunday, 25 July 2010) Trutnov to Szklarska Poręba (84 km) Funny things, borders. As I cross into Poland, where I’ll be sp...

Stage 2, day 2 (Saturday, 24 July 2010) Náchod to Trutnov (85 km) One of my goals on this trip is to sample as many local Czech beers as...

Stage 2, day 1 (Friday, 23 July 2010) Starkoč to Náchod (9 km) The hotel I stayed at in Náchod is part of the Cyclists Welcome scheme in...

I've posted the photos of the latest leg of my trip around the Czech border in a slideshow at the bottom of the left-hand column of the ...

I'm on the train home from Decin (pictured above) having completed stage 2 of my spin around CZ. I underestimated the distance today by ...

The photo, shot this morning, shows the Izera River on the breathtakingly beautiful plateau of the same name. It's been a day of enormou...

I tried to take a nice photo of Szklarska Poreba, the Polish mountain resort where I'm spending the night, but frankly it's not very...

Pictured is the oldest wooden church in the Czech Republic. It's to be found in the town of Broumov, where I had lunch today. I managed ...

I'm sitting enjoying a beer in Hotel Bonato on the outskirts of Nachod after an uneventful train ride up from Prague. So far it's qu...

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...

At 410 km (at least), stage 2 is one of the longest of the entire trip. It is also possibly the most diverse, featuring overnight stops in t...

I’ve been scratching my head for some time now about how to traverse the Giant Mountains (Krkonoše in Czech, Karkonosze in Polish) during st...