Trip to New Forest – Day 1

Date September 24, 2007

I thought it would be nice to share our experience cycling in New Forest last month during the long weekend. It is a lovely place, and is very friendly to cyclists. There are lots of bike hiring shops around if you don’t have your own bike. And the bikes they hire out are quite good [...]

Carrying bicycles by train in the UK

Date September 13, 2007

The train services in the UK are hopeless. We recently went on a biking trip in New Forest. Apart from the dreadful train journey, where we were turned down twice to board the train with our bikes, it was a really great outing. Not knowing that we need to reserve places for our bikes in [...]

Bike thief

Date June 3, 2007

Someone tried to steal W’s bike while we were watching tele yesterday, at around 12 midnight! It was quite an unpleasant experience to be honest. I was first alerted by the knocking sound of the chain that is used to chain the bike around the metal rail. But I quickly dismissed it as I [...]

Let it snow, let it snow

Date February 8, 2007

This is definitely the heaviest snowfall I’ve seen in the UK, in almost 10 years I’ve been here! We have experienced one of the warmest month in January not that long ago. And today we have heavy snowfall all around the UK. Isn’t it interesting how global warming is affecting the weather pattern?

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Fog

Date December 23, 2006

It was such a surreal experience cycling for the past few days! Thick heavy fog reduced my visibility down to just tens of meters. In the morning, it got so cold that the fields were covered in frost. So was my jacket, slowly covered with thin lines of frost on the edges, the more time [...]