Trusty Steed

I've never had a road bike, and today I borrowed Pete's bike to bike to work - 10 miles. It's got one of those saddles that probably makes you infertile - and even my padded pants didn't really take the edge off of the pain.

Anyway, cycling to work was quite nice, the sun was shining and the lambs were gambolling in the fields. So - cycling to work when the weather is nice is a good idea I've decided and also;

-it makes you fit, I am hoping for muscular calves as a result (how long will this take?)

-it saves money

-if you are of a 'green' persuasion you'll be interested to know it's better for the environment than driving - doh

I read that as a business you can offer a tax exempt loan scheme to encourage employees to cycle to work, there's some info here:

http://www.petrolprices.com/cycling.html

Just imagine the kit that you could persuade your employers to buy! And all in the name of good environmental practise - yay! Though no doubt they'd probably draw the line at spokey dokeys.

Something different for the weekend?

A VERY long time ago, when I first started working at PV, I can remember a gentleman called Andrew Eames coming for a visit. He was writing a piece on our Adrenalin Cocktail weekends for the Evening Standard. He was nice, a little taciturn, one of those guys who doesn't give much away.

Anyway, the piece was fantastic, the write up of the weekend 'awesome' (ha), in fact it's still on the wall in the lodge, still makes me laugh when I read it.

'Something different for the weekend - 52 seasonal breaks for the imaginative traveller' is the name of the new book he's just written, and I was honoured and touched when I saw he'd included the Adrenalin Cocktail as one of these breaks! Even more so when he writes;

"In 25 years as a travel writer I'm lucky enough to have been to a lot of places myself, but many of them didn't make the cut as far as this book is concerned. This collection centres on those which really rocked my boat; those that had the tingle factor, that changed my opinion of something, someone or somewhere. I'm fairly convinced that some of them will rock your tingle factor, too."

We do hope so - we do like the idea of being purveyors of the tingle factor!

It's a great book with a load of ideas for exciting weekends away - you can read about it, and buy it here; http://www.bradt-travelguides.com/

And Andrew, if you ever get to read this, thanks very much, and please do come and tingle with us again soon.

More gushing....

I'm having another moment I'm afraid. I read Kimberly's blog and Rachel's blog and they made my feel and warm and squishy inside.

Here they are:
http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/Wales/Pembrokeshire/blog-252309.html

http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/Wales/Pembrokeshire/Haverfordwest/blog-252468.html

and maybe they will make you feel all warm and nice too.


I promised them frolicing...it appears they went ahead and froliced!