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• River Wye Cycle Ride

  

  Featured in The Guardian’s Top 10 Great Family Ideas With The Kids I’ve finally got my three kids cycling. They’re still a bit wobbly on the narrow lanes where I live in the Black Mountains, but an excellent way to build their confidence is riding on traffic-free paths, many of which are part of Sustrans’ [...] Read more

• Bikecation

  

  Featured in Angels & Urchins  Sunday 12th February 2012 – Bikecation New company providing self-guided and guided cycle itineraries across some of the most beautiful and unspoilt parts of the UK. Have a browse through the imaginatively thought-out programmes online. Children as young as 7 should cope with Beach to Border (from Aberystwyth, over the [...] Read more

• Take a Bikecation!

  

  Featured in the The Weekly Wrinkle  Tuesday 17th January 2012 – Take a Bikecation We’re fans of exercise on two wheels – great for the body (especially the bottom!) and a remarkably sociable way to get about, as long as the hills aren’t too steep! If you feel like taking to two wheels for a [...] Read more

• How Come I Didnt Know?

  

  Featured in The Washing Machine Post  Friday 13th January 2012  How Come I Didn’t Know? Hurricane force winds and horizontal hail notwithstanding, islay’s a rather fine place to ride a bike. many of the back roads are single track and bear relatively little traffic, leaving plenty of time to look about you and admire the [...] Read more

• Friendship Through Adversity

  

  Featured in Howies  Wednesday 7th March 2012  Friendship through adversity, I ride a bicycle for many reasons. Perhaps the most powerful reason at this stage of my life is to share the physical and emotional fellowship of riding with friends. Happily, all my best friends ride. I’m not saying that we can’t be friends if [...] Read more

• Support the London Cycle Map Campaign

  

  Featured in Cycle Lifestyle  Monday 16 January 2012 Robert Penn, author of bestselling book ‘It’s All About the Bike’, explains why a London Cycle Map would make life easier for visitors to the capital. I lived in London for nearly a decade – the 90s – and rode a bicycle almost every day. I invested [...] Read more

• Country Life is Richer than City Living

  

  Featured in The Observer  Sunday 4 March 2012 Country life is richer than city living, whatever your age A new campaign warns older people against the ‘dangers’ of retiring to the countryside. But for Rob Penn, who moved from London to the Black Mountains, rural sights, sounds and, above all, communities beat the city any [...] Read more