NEVER STRAYS FRINGE: TWO DAYS IN SCOTLAND
For The Love Of Cycling
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🗓️ 21 August 2025
⏱️ 48 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | That is a sound. Well, there are three different sounds actually. There's four now. |
| 0:09.0 | That's a sash window closing. But before that you might have heard a Seagull, what sounded |
| 0:14.0 | like a motorbike revving up and down the high street, and perhaps the whirr of an air conditioning |
| 0:20.0 | unit of the bar opposite me that promises |
| 0:24.3 | spicy chicken and cold beer. I'm staying in a very small hotel, very nice little hotel, in |
| 0:29.9 | St Andrews, where I have arrived for the second time in my life actually to Toppings Bookshop, which is an amazing institution |
| 0:39.2 | in St Andrews, which is not only a fabulous bookshop, but runs amazing author events that |
| 0:45.8 | are always very well attended. And in a couple of hours' time, I'm going to be chatting |
| 0:49.8 | to some people about my book, The Accidental Tourist. |
| 0:56.4 | And I've just signed 150 books, which will be going to, people who signed up to buy them, I guess, later. |
| 1:05.2 | Otherwise, there's no point of me having done that. |
| 1:06.7 | Sorry, I'm rambling. |
| 1:07.8 | But yeah, this is a start of a podcast that may become a podcast, |
| 1:11.1 | but may become part of a bigger podcast. Let's see how it goes. A 48 hour, not even that, |
| 1:17.4 | maybe 36 hours trip to Scotland and back. Today at St Andrews. I've just taken a five and |
| 1:24.1 | half hour train journey from Kings Cross up to St Andrews and I will be going |
| 1:31.0 | back fairly early tomorrow. But first up before, but first up before that, I'm going to go for a run |
| 1:37.0 | to see if I can run onto and trespass onto Donald Trump's flipping golf course. |
| 1:45.3 | Has he got one in St Andrews? |
| 1:46.8 | I don't even know if he has. |
| 1:47.8 | I might have totally the wrong place. |
| 1:49.7 | This episode is brought to you by Bickmore Cycle Insurance. |
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