This week, I invite you to enjoy a new short story from the world of Emily & Hilda on my author’s blog.
Next week, I will interrupt River Run 2017 to bring you the first installment of my current ride across Southside Virginia. Now that I have been vaccinated against COVID-19, the tour Breaking Out 2021, resumes. Do come back for it!
Smooth roads and tailwinds,
JT
After two days in Gyo̎r, I set out on the 12th for Bratislava. There was a steady northwest wind all day, but it was not as strong as earlier. North of Gyo̎r, I found myself riding through tidy suburbs with single-family dwellings, set in the middle of vast fields of various crops. The plants were all short, and different bright shades of springtime green – except for the rapeseed (brassica napus), blooming in blinding yellow. Continue reading
This week, I invite you to enjoy a new short story from the world before Lockhart on my author’s blog.
Next week, we’ll continue up the Danube River. Please join me.
Smooth roads and tailwinds,
JT
Monday, the 8th of May, a heavy overcast made sunglasses unnecessary as I hauled my bicycle from the basement and my five bags from the room. By shuffling things around on Sunday evening, I managed to get more weight moved aft on the bike. OsmAnd software led me easily up the left bank of the Danube and over the great river into Buda. The sky cleared as I crossed the bridge. Continue reading
This week, I invite you to enjoy a new short story from the world before Lockhart on my author’s blog.
Next week, we’ll ride up the Danube River. Please join me.
Smooth roads and tailwinds,
JT
On Monday, 8 March 2021, I wheeled my loaded bicycle into the lift and went down to the street. Glorious, blazing sunshine in a cloudless sky, the temperature in the low teens (°C). The weather forecast was as close to ideal as it could get for the first day on the road since the Pandemic Pedalling of 2020. Although a headwind was forecast for both days of my outing, it proved to be almost a dead calm. Continue reading
This week, I invite you to enjoy a new short story from the world of Emily & Hilda on my author’s blog.
Next week, we’ll interrupt River Run 2017 for my third pandemic outing, the first ride of Breaking Out 2021.
Smooth roads and tailwinds,
JT
To celebrate the upcoming release of the second volumes in the Lockhart and the Emily & Hilda series, I have joined Smashwords’ eBook week. Available in all eBook formats, including Kindle, Nook, epub, and pdf.
All my books will be free from Sunday 7 March through Sunday 13 March. Enjoy!
The BP-17 Translation Conference main program opened on Friday morning, 5 May, at the belle époque Urania Theatre. A series of 18-minute TED-X style talks filled the day from 09:40 to 21:00 that night. Talks, coffee breaks, lunch and supper all took place at the theatre. By the way, BP stands for “business + practice,” although we had fun making up all sorts of other expansions of those two letters (http://bpconf.com/story-bp-translation-conferences/). Continue reading
Wednesday the 3rd of May, I awoke to an overcast morning with the threat of more rain. The air smelled fresh as it does in a clean place with the air recently rinsed. I had planned to take the 13:59 train to Budapest, so I rose late and fixed myself a leisurely breakfast. I rode to the station (only 600 m away) with almost an hour to spare, just to be sure that I had not read any signs wrong. The station had walk-on access to the platform from the street. Continue reading
The Freewheeling Freelancer 