CityCyclingEdinburgh was launched on the 27th of October 2009 as "an experiment".
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In James Joyce’s great short story set today (Feast of the Epiphany when snow was general all over Ireland) there is mention of a bicycle,
Molly Ivors invites the hero of the story Gabriel Conroy to holiday in the west of Ireland (Aran Islands) but he says he will be going on a cycling holiday to Belgium. She then calls him a West Briton.
My favourite short story writer is Frankie Jackdaw* and my favourite of those tales is 'Investigations of a Dog', or possibly 'The Burrow' although many people rate 'The Hunger Artist'.
In The Burrow an unspecified bearded creature constructs and elaborate tunnel system to protect itself from an unknown enemy that never arrives. If it had instead gone cycling in Belgium....
*Known as Franz Kafka pre-Brexit.
Check out the Louis Theroux interviews Frankie Boyle interview. Frankie wins easily. @iwrats you should trade mark Frankie Jackdaw or Bob Mortimer Will nick it for the cat names he is selling on Twitter for 8 pounds a name.
@gembo
Only a few initiates know how to pronounce 'Kafka'. I was taught by a Czech friend and it sounds like 'Gof-keh'.
Theroux versus Boyle would be a great Death Match. Boyle would expand to fill whatever clever void the diffident Theroux's retreat invited him to occupy.
have been to inishmore, was followed around by a singular dog who seemed to have the run of the whole island
he even turned up on the jetty next morning to see us off
@bax I am Facebook friends with Inishboffin and indeed The Inishboffin Gift Shop. To mainatain balance I am also friends with Achil Island. it has no gift shop but does have a nice bridge that you can see cyclists pedalling over In Sunnier times.
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