Travel Blog
Conquering the Stelvio: 48 Hairpins to Heaven
There are climbs, and then there is the Stelvio. At 2,758 metres — the highest paved pass in the Eastern Alps — it is the kind of mountain that reorders your relationship with cycling entirely. I have ridden a lot of cols in my time, but nothing quite prepares you for what waits on that narrow ribbon of tarmac.
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Norway by Bike: Fjords, Midnight Sun and Silence
I did not expect Norway to break me. Not emotionally, at least. I had packed for cold and hills, for unpredictable weather and long days. What I had not packed for was the silence — the profound, absolute silence of cycling through a fjord landscape at midnight, in full daylight, with no sound but my own breathing.
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La Marmotte 2024: The Most Brutal Beautiful Day on a Bike
La Marmotte is 174 kilometres, 5,000 metres of climbing, and four of the most iconic cols in the French Alps — the Croix de Fer, Télégraphe, Galibier, and Alpe d'Huez. It is also the hardest day I have ever voluntarily spent on a bicycle. And the best.
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The Dolomites by Bike: Where Every Turn Is a Postcard
I grew up in Vicenza, ninety minutes south of the Dolomites, and I spent years taking them for granted. They were always there, pale and vertical on the northern horizon. It took a cycling holiday to make me truly see them for the first time — from the saddle, at altitude, where the scale of the rock towers finally makes sense.
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Two Weeks in Girona: Training Like a Pro
There is a reason that more professional cycling teams base themselves in Girona than anywhere else in Europe. The roads are extraordinary, the coffee is good, and the city — medieval, walled, draped over the Onyar river — is the kind of place that makes you want to stay indefinitely. I went for two weeks. I should have stayed longer.
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