This is not a guidebook. There are no maps, GPX tracks, or step-by-step routes. Instead, it is a literary travel memoir — a slow, observant account of riding from Prague across Europe and France to the Atlantic coast.

It captures the rhythm of long-distance cycling: repetition, fatigue, weather, solitude, fleeting encounters, humor, resilience, and the quiet transformations that emerge over weeks on the road. Towns, rivers, meals, and landscapes appear not as logistics, but as moments — fragments of memory seen from the saddle.

If you enjoy reflective travel writing, slow adventure, and intimate, thoughtful nonfiction, this book is for you.

Paperback on Amazon.
Download the PDF edition from my blog.

If you read it, I’d love to hear your thoughts — and thank you for helping carry this journey forward.

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