Captain JP's log

Following on from the blog post " Do you need full frame? " here is a short video of a bike ride in Richmond Park on New Year...

The three year anniversary of the 2012 Olympic Games led to some hand-wringing comments about its legacy being squandered. But over the we...

The Thames between Richmond and Kingston is pretty idyllic for what is really an urban water way. There's the lush riverbank with ov...

It is well known that English Bank Holidays are traditionally wet and windy. To this day, a holiday weekend of driving rain is enough to m...

The improvements to the Putney River Bus posted yesterday  are part of a wider plan to improve use of the Thames. You can read all about ...

I like a good bit of installation art, particularly if, somewhere, there's a sailing angle, but alas this one didn't really make the...

Another day, another chance of a medal. This time its the women's cycle road race, here crossing Putney Bridge on the way out, which mea...

After last night's great opening ceremony it was time for sport and one of the first events was the men's cycle road race. Its route...

I did another trip to the gym this evening and had that nice warm healthy feeling, but then I read about the Patagonian Expedition Race and...

This morning I joined 55,000 of other Londoners on the 2011 Skyride . For those of you that haven't done one of these the Skyride invo...