I just got back from a fishing trip in Snowdonia and while the car journey through the Welsh valleys was beautiful and at times spellbinding, I simply wanted to be on my bike because as Hemingway rightly wrote:
It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them. Thus you remember them as they actually are, while in a motor car only a high hill impresses you, and you have no such accurate remembrance of country you have driven through as you gain by riding a bicycle.
Tags: book, car, cycling, cyclo, english, ernest, hemmingway, literature, read, snowdon, tourism, valley, wales, welsh, writing
September 29, 2010 at 11:07 am |
very nice
October 1, 2010 at 7:57 am |
thats one of my favuourite quotes. so true.
love the fact that you cant see the top of the hill in that photograph. makes it extra-daunting