Hints and tips:
...For a real sense of moving through the mountains, try a guided off-road bike tour with E-Alps, which uses electric mountain bikes to tackle multi-day routes, staying in small village hotels or mountain huts...
...An electric bike. My commute to River Cottage HQ is about seven miles, but very hilly, so that should be doable on an e-bike. What’s your biggest extravagance? Fishing tackle....
...In smart neighbourhoods, a clutch of new boutique hotels has sprouted up, including the seven-room Seku Bi, named after the parrots in the garden, and La Demeurea, a simple B&B above a café and design shop...
...Began with a “B”). We’d dropped acid and had sex three or four times with Radiohead’s Kid A on shuffle-repeat....
...The project now is to define a new Britishness, rather than the old maids on bikes that Major once invoked....
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