Travel
Caye Caulker
Island life: Caye Caulker’s motto is ‘go slow’ and here visitors learn to take the rough with the smooth.
- Originally published: 29 Dec 2011 in Belize
Trier
Germany’s oldest city, Trier was an important centre of the Roman Empire and sometime home to the Emperor himself.
- Originally published: 14 Nov 2011 in Europe
Istanbul
A crazy city of 13m people where East meets West, Istanbul has always been a vast, confusing metropolis. Some things never change!
- Originally published: 25 Sep 2011 in Middle East
Göreme
Leaving the city for the desert: the rocky landscapes of Göreme, a town in Central Anatolia that has become a popular destination for backpackers.
- Originally published: 25 Sep 2011 in Middle East
Sintra
Romantic architecture and the stuff of pure whimsy: welcome to Sintra and its castles in the sky!
- Originally published: 13 Jun 2011 in Architecture, Europe
Bike and kayak in Lisbon and Arrábida
Lisbon is great to visit by bike – provided you start at the top of a hill. And when you’re done with the city, the beautiful coastline awaits!
- Originally published: 13 Jun 2011 in Europe
Elsewhere on MikePadgett.com …
The good, the bad and the inevitable
Starting over in road cycling means buying a lot of new equipment. I discovered how things have changed since 1998.
- Originally published: 29 Apr 2012 in Cycling
Photos of 8ch and Magna
Photos from a couple of visits in winter 2006-7.
- Originally published: 26 Jan 2007 in Personalia
Kontiolahti, Finland
One of our fondest travel memories, a journey into the deep forests and broad lakes of eastern Finland.
- Originally published: 2 Nov 2002 in Europe
Ladybower and Castleton
A day out in Derbyshire blessed with a rare spell of good weather.
- Originally published: 22 Apr 2007 in UK
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Who you gonna call?
Hello, you. I'm Mike Padgett. I'm not a Princeton curator, Knoxville mayoral candidate, Kentuckian pastor or Arizona journalist, I just share the same name as those guys. I'm a user experience consultant, expatriate, traveller, writer and pro cycling enthusiast.
I'm originally from Yorkshire, England but nowadays I live in Belgium. My current favourite Belgian beer is Black Albert. I started my website in 2005 and I've been running it ever since.
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Over a year in the making, Dopeology.org is my latest personal project: a topology of doping in thirty years of European pro road cycling.
I collected information from thousands of sources, then I modelled and published it via a lightweight user interface.