I am a retired engineer, with a grown up family, and have ridden motorcycles and bicycles all my life. I was inspired to cycle tour after completing Lands End John O'Groats for charity in 2000.
I have restored several old bicycles and have a collection of about 25, including a pennyfarthing. After becoming a founder member of the Clitheroe Bike Club I became a club run leader and a British Cycling Level 2 coach visiting local primary schools.
I enjoy photography and film making and have been a Rotarian for over 30 years doing charity work at home and abroad.
I have cycled in 25 countries to date and led over 25 tours for CTC.
I will go anywhere that interests me and love to experience other cultures. I have led tours in the UK for both families and for experienced riders. Over the years I have tended to do World Wide Tours to Australia, Japan, Cambodia, China, NW America, Cuba and the Balkans. Closer to home I have led tours to Ireland, Shetland and Orkney and the Lakes and Dales in the North West of England. I have been cycling touring in Turkey, Sicily, India and most of the Nordic countries. The world is my playground.
Cambodia
A wonderful journey past one of the many floating villages on the Sangkar river leading to the town of Battambang from Siem Reap.
Lakes and Dales
This is the 14th century Castle Bolton in North Yorkshire's impressive Wensleydale Valley, where we stop for a short tea break before heading over Redmire into Swaledale.
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Yellowstone - Old Faithful hot springs.
Just a few of the Hot Springs around Old Faithful, which erupts every two hours. An amazing place with 500 geysers and 5000 thermal features in 9,000 sq. km.
Honshu - Japan
Shiroyone Senmaida Rice paddies in the Noto Peninsula in NW Honshu Japan. Tended by locals with hand tools. An incredible place to tour by bicycle.
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Tasmania - Australia
The northern coast of Tasmania at Devonport, teeming with birdlife and nearby fairy penguins. Such a lot of unusual wildlife in Tasmania.
Great Ocean Road - Victoria, Australia
One of the thirty coastal rock features near Peterborough on the south coast of Victoria. Eroded by years of pounding seas and wind. A coastline with many shipwrecks.
Slovenia - Spodnja Sorica
The village of Spodnja Sorica in the Upper Carniola region of Slovenia with the statue of the impressionist painter Ivan Grohar in the foreground, 30km north west of the capital Ljubljana.
Oregon - The Sisters
The exquisite Sisters Mountains in the background covered in a halo of cloud. A small tourist/artist town in Deschutes County below the Cascade Ranges.
Shetland and Orkney
This was a two week holiday taking the overnight ferry from Aberdeen to Shetland where the three largest islands are cycled, visiting several important settlements and observing the varied wildlife. The visit to Orkney again takes in several islands and the important historic settlements which predate the pyramids. A visit to Scapa Flow where the navy have shielded their ships in two world wars and to this day houses carcasses of ships scuttled by the Germans. Read more