Freewheeling: A Taste of European Cycling

by Steven Primrose-Smith

In the last ten years, Steven Primrose-Smith has cycled around 40,000 miles (64,000 km), dragging heavy panniers over mountains, suffering regular soakings and sunburn, eating dodgy food like brains, intestine sandwiches and marmots, through every country in mainland Europe and lots of regions that wish they were countries, including some that are still at war.

This bargain collection includes standalone chapters from each of Steven's five popular cycling books: "No Place Like Home, Thank God"; "Hungry for Miles"; "Route Britannia", parts 1 & 2; and his brand new "Biking Broken Europe".

99 pages, Kindle Edition

Published February 25, 2019

About the author

Steven Primrose-Smith has written sketches, songs, sitcoms and pantos for London-based NewsRevue, the world's longest-running live satirical comedy show, and The Sitcom Trials, as well as a series of comedy shows he produced in Spain. His writing has also appeared in The Independent, Cycle magazine and The National Student Magazine.

Steven's book "No Place Like Home, Thank God", about his near-death experience and the resulting 22,000-mile bicycle ride around Europe, is an Amazon International bestseller, reaching #1 in Cycling and #3 in both Sport and Travel. He has written four travel follow-ups: "Hungry for Miles" describes his 2015 attempt to cycle across Europe surviving on only £1 a day; "Route Britannia", another Amazon bestseller, explores in two parts his 2016 5,000-mile ride through every county in Britain; "Biking Broken Europe", yet another bestseller, follows his 6,000-mile journey through the more unstable bits of Europe, including the frozen and not-so-frozen conflicts of Transnistria, Abkhazia and Nagorno-Karabakh; and his latest book, "The Quest for the Holy Quail", tells of his 3,000-mile foodie adventure through the whole of Morocco as it closed down around him due to Covid-19.

As well as travel books, Steven writes humorous novels. His first, another Amazon UK bestseller (#1 in Satire), is "George Pearly is a Miserable Old Sod", a murder-mystery involving the most unpopular man on the Costa del Sol. He has recently released his third novel, "How Not to Be a Unicorn", in which a well-meaning New Age mum indulges her young son's wishes to be a unicorn and, while he sleeps, superglues a horn to his head.

Steven also manages EuropeByBicycle.com, a hub of information about cycling in Europe with country guides for over 50 destinations.

For the latest information about Steven and his latest releases and projects, please visit www.primrose-smith.com.

Reviews

[Tom Bilcze · Rating 4 out of 5]

I enjoyed reading this collection of chapters from the author's bicycle touring bikes. Earlier, I read his book, No Place Like Home, and thoroughly enjoyed it. I plan of reading more from this author. I like his style and method of telling the story of touring by bicycle.

[Julia · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book was not what I was looking for, focused a lot on the Uk and Britain for biking and was just not engaging for me.