Audi Q4 e-tron real-world user review

I bought an Audi Q4 e-tron ( fully electric car) to replace my Land Rover Defender TD4 and VW T-roc The Q4 was great, all the mod-cons of which the matrix lights and virtual reality HUD are the best but I had a problem….. One morning it decided not to work. Nothing. Just able to…

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Back in Staffordshire

Brought my father back to the UK after a week spent with us in Belgium. We went back up to Staffordshire in the midlands to visit my elder brother and his family before returning to Eastbourne The driving was painfully slow going up to James and coming back down to Eastbourne. Just too much traffic…

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Washington DC on foot

18.42km. 98m ascent. 4h14 walk time DC is full of things to see and they are fairly well spaced out….. Our first job was to find 2 bike boxes to pack our bikes for the home journey. These we found at The Daily Rider who kindly gave us 2 with the original inside packaging material.…

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Fredericksburg-Washington DC

107.14km. 993m ascent. 5h25 ride time Not a great ride. Komoot basically routes up the old highway which is not to be recommended. I find Komoot good in Europe but less so here in the USA The best part of the route was actually here in DC where the city is super bike friendly and…

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Richmond – Fredericksburg

115.77km. 777m ascent. 5h25 ride time The penultimate day of our epic ride in the USA. Very hot and humid but a beautiful ride with, luckily, plenty of shade, thought the beautiful Virginia countryside. It was brutally hot again and this drained our energy but we made good headway and arrived at our motel around…

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Richmond guided city tour by bike

38.74km. 294m ascent. 2h33 ride time Patrice offered to give us a guided cycle tour of Richmond, something Phini usually does but he had just undergone surgery and was not allowed to ride! We had a great ride around the sights of Richmond and Richmond is a city where I could live! They have the…

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Williamsburg – Richmond

101.42km. 543m ascent. 4h42 ride time Our journey draws to an end as we make our way up to Washington DC to catch our flight back to Belgium. We have a whole day in Richmond, mainly because we were way too early in Yorktown and we have time to spare. Changing our ticket is prohibitively…

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