The Restory Retreat Centre

Photograph by George Angus “When I see an adult on a bicycle, I do not despair for the future of the human race.”                                                                                                          H.G Wells Initially I had my doubts about writing this. But before I get to the reason for that, I have to provide some background. For a number of years I have been walking around with this deep longing to get myself a bicycle. During my childhood and teenage years I’ve loved cycling but somewhere along the   line I’ve sold my bike and haven’t had one for decades. But now the urge has grown so strong that I had to do something about it. And when I talk about a strong urge I am not overly dramatic or saying it in a figurative sense. Like a massive glazier slowly moving and not being detered by anything in its way, this astonishingly deep desire arrived unannounced and grew in strength. Despite my constant, mostly financial, objections it