The Central European winter drags on for months, and to a cyclist on a mission to cycle around the Czech border it can seem never-ending. Bu...

It’s a much-discussed topic among touring cyclists - what (and perhaps more importantly, what not) to take with you. There’s a trade-off bet...

About a year ago I wrote a post about Czech cycling maps . In it, I concentrated on the various series of printed cycling maps availabl...

Stage 7 will be the last leg of my jaunt around the Czech Republic, the one that takes me back to Bohumín, where I started my journey in May...

It’s a long stage, this one, but it’s the flattest one of them all - especially once I’ve completed the first day’s ride between Horní Dvoři...

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 ...