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ABROADLY SPEAKING

cycled through Egypt this week. Not the country; it’s a hamlet west of Bradford. Sadly there’s no sign, so I couldn’t pose for a jokey Twitter post: ‘You can tell it’s not Egypt because of the mist, freezing rain and gales. Or as we call it in Yorkshire, May’. But it got me thinking. What other places ‘abroad’ can we cycle

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