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On the Trail.

At some point in the winter of 2024 Max suggested that we sign up for the Tuscany Trail and, in a classic display of why women tend to live longer than men, Ariel and I agreed on the spot. It was only in early May 2025, with departure day a few days’ away, that the implications of what we’d done hit us. Four-hundred and thirty kilometres, more than six thousand metres of height gain, all by bicycle, over four days.

But by that time there was no turning back.

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The wisdom of time.

Life is all about change and the most important source of it is, I believe, your own self. One of the most precious pearls of wisdom I’ve ever received is that I shouldn’t spend all my life set in my ways. Trying something new - or checking if a long-held belief still holds true - always pays off.

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