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Earlier this year we visited the Northshields Rings near Portmore Loch. At the time, we were warned off coming back by someone from the estate. He said that we should keep away from the tracks going through the middle of … Continue reading →

Colette and I met up with Fiona, Susan and Alison for another “famous five” outing, this time starting from the spacious Sainsburys car park in Livingston. The aim was to scope out a route via Shotts to Caldercruix, then returning … Continue reading →

We were invited along to today’s cycle by Fiona from Lothian Cyclists, who wanted to scope out a few possible new paths with which to put together some new routes through the East Lothian countryside. Along with Susan and Alison, … Continue reading →

Since rediscovering the joys of cycling a few years ago, I sometimes cast my mind back to when I cycled as a kid, before giving up when I passed my driving test. Nowadays I cycle much further than I did … Continue reading →

The weather forecast for today was looking good, so we decided on an outing with a couple of friends from the village. The numbers then went up to five for a brief while before going back to four then finally … Continue reading →

Whilst July was mostly full of cycle-friendly calm, sunny days, August has not been quite so obliging. As a consequence, we haven’t done much of note, and even had to abandon some planned Lothian Cyclists outings. You have to stay … Continue reading →

This is by way of a follow-up to a post from 1 June 2014, where we failed to find our way to Lammerlock Reservoir. A month or so later, we decided to give it another try and arrived complete with … Continue reading →

To paraphrase Charles Dickens: It was the best of fun, it was the worst of fun… Back in the years when I did more fishing, Loch Etive was one of my favourite haunts. There was an easy place to launch … Continue reading →

We arrived in Aberfoyle at about 10 am, half an hour early for today’s outing with the Lothian Cyclists, having allowed extra time to negotiate the Edinburgh bypass, which actually turned out to be very quiet. It must have been … Continue reading →

It has been raining so much recently it’s unbelievable. Our last outing, earlier in the week, was during a rare dry spell, but we cut it short almost immediately when it started raining again, then I got a puncture a … Continue reading →