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Article: Travel: Crossing Europe on two wheels; Philip Derbyshire encounters thrilling hair-pins and inspiring Alpine passes. The M1 will never seem the same again.(Features)
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- Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
- Article date:
- September 4, 2004
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Byline: Philip Derbyshire
WITH travel and holidays, you usually have to endure one to enjoy the other. But there are some appealing alternatives, if the journey is the reason you left home in the first place.
Walking and cycling tours are often all about the route rather than the destination, which is just as well because they are hardly the quickest way of covering ground.
Cars solve the distance problem, only to replace it with another, as trying to appreciate your surroundings while crammed into a tin box, frequently queued behind other cars, is problematic even under the best possible conditions.
However, some (and I place myself ...