towpath treks: the blog

Today I finally did a bike ride I have been planning for a while. The plan was to cycle from the river lock at the end of the St Helen's...

Today is the Solstice, the longest day of the year. I'm still not sure if we have already had our Summer; I hope I haven't missed my...

Riding from Liverpool to Leeds along the canal seems to be increasingly popular. Most recently Adam Hope and the Burnley Boys have ridden fr...

For a few years now the Leigh Branch page on www.towpathtreks.co.uk has been empty. This was because I had not been along it to take any ph...

March is my month of rebooting my New Year resolutions and doing lots of things that may not be enjoyable but are good for me. As part of my...

It took me until the Thursday of my week off to actually get my bike out and get myself down to the canal here in Liverpool. By the time I h...